Malnutrition refers to deficiencies, excesses, or imbalances of someone’s energy and/or nutrients intake. It’s divided into 2 broad groups of conditions, i.e. undernutrition and overnutrition. Monitoring body weight regularly could help to maintain normal body weight and prevent malnutrition.

Based on World Health Organization, obesity is defined as excessive fat accumulation that presents a higher risk of comorbidity and mortality. Comorbid can affect someone’s quality of life. Some of those comorbid risks are: read more

Because of COVID-19 pandemic, social activities are restricted. People work from home, so our daily physical activities are minimal. For example, we just sitting for hours in front of a computer or laptop. However, physical activity needs to be done at least 30 minutes, routinely 3-5 times a week (Ministry of Health, 2020).

According to the Community Promotion and Empowerment Section (2020) physical activity, including exercise, are needed to:

1. Reduces anxiety
2. Control stress
3. Control cholesterol levels
4. Improve joint flexibility and muscle strength
5. Increase endurance and the immune system

We need to do regular physical activity to improve physical fitness, maintain ideal body weight, and prevent obesity (Promotion and Community Empowerment Section, 2020). In carrying out daily activities during a pandemic, we need to stretch every two hours for 10-15 seconds. Besides, we also need to regularly drink water to avoid dehydration and avoid smoking (Abdulloh, 2020) read more

Infectious diseases are one of the factors that affect a person’s nutritional status, both children and adults. Nutritional status has an influence on the immune system and the healing process. A person with a poor or even poor nutritional status is more at risk of developing various diseases and the healing time tends to be slower. Someone who is infected with an infectious disease needs more nutritional intake but has a problem, namely a decreased appetite. This can lead to weight loss and worsening nutritional status (Putri,2015). read more

We really need a variety of foods because there is no single type of food that contains complete nutrition except breast milk. For example, rice is a major source of calories, but is poor in vitamins and minerals; vegetables and fruits are generally rich in vitamins, minerals, and fiber, but poor in calories and protein; fish is a major source of protein but few calories. Therefore, consuming a variety of foods is absolutely necessary for us to keep our bodies healthy.

In the principle of consuming diverse foods, the proportion of food consumed must also be considered so that it is balanced, in sufficient quantities, not excessive, and carried out regularly. The variety of foods in balanced nutrition is clearly shown in the ”tumpeng gizi seimbang” or Healthy Food Pyramid. “Tumpeng Gizi Seimbang” consists of several tumpeng pieces: one large slice, two medium pieces, two small pieces, and at the top there are the smallest pieces. The width of the tumpeng pieces indicates the portion of food that each person should consume per day. read more

The Center for Human Health and Nutrition opens internship opportunities for alumni of the Health Nutrition Undergraduate Study Program, FK-KMK, Gadjah Mada University

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Community Service Activities: Nutrition National Day in Seyegan, January 30, 2019

Nutrigenetics is a branch of knowledge of nutrition that studies human genetic and uses it as a basis for nutritional and dietetic management to achieve desired health outcomes. Nutrigenetics has developed and been manifested in personal diet recommendations (personalized nutrition). Studying nutrigenetics is important for nutritionists and dietitians in Indonesia since it helps them providing dietary recommendation based on individual characteristics. Thus, the Center for Health and Human Nutrition, FK-KMK UGM will conduct online training of application of nutrigenetics for nutritionists and dietitians. read more

Do you want to know the state of the art of nutrigenetics? For you, nutritionist, dietitian, and other healthcare provider, this training is right for you!

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Online Intensive Training

“Application of Nutrigenetics for Nutritionists and Dietitians”

Keynote speaker: Harry Freitag Luglio Muhammad, S.Gz., M.Sc., RD.

Lecturer of Nutrition and Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing UGM

PhD candidate of Maastricht University

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Center for Human Health and Nutrition (CH2N), Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing Universitas Gadjah Mada wishes you 61^ST HAPPY NATIONAL NUTRITION DAY, January 25, 2021. Through this year’s theme “Healthy Youth, Anemia Free”, let us get together build Indonesia, starting with consuming foods with a balanced nutritional diet, adopting healthy lifestyle, being physically active, and regularly monitoring body weight. “Balanced Nutrition, Healthy Youth, Strong Indonesia”