150 Where There Is No Doctor 2011
7. Parents, teachers, health workers, and others who smoke set an unhealthy
example for children and young people, increasing the likelihood that they too will
begin smoking.
8. Also, smoking costs money. It looks like little is spent, but it adds up to a lot.
In poorer countries, many of the poorest persons spend more on tobacco than the
country spends per person on its health program. If money spent on tobacco were
spent for food instead, children and whole families could be healthier.
Anyone interested in the health of others should not smoke,
and should encourage others not to smoke.
CARBONATED DRINKS (soft drinks, soda pop, Coke, fizzy drinks, colas)
In some areas these drinks have become very popular. Often a poor mother will
buy carbonated drinks for a child who is poorly nourished, when the same money
could be better used to buy 2 eggs or other nutritious food.
IF YOU WANT HEALTHY CHILDREN
AND HAVE A LITTLE MONEY TO BUY THEM SOMETHING . . .
buy them a couple of eggs or other
nutritious food,
not carbonated drinks!
YES NO
Carbonated drinks have no nutritional value apart from sugar. And for the amount
of sugar they contain, they are very expensive. Children who are given a lot of
carbonated drinks and other sweet things often begin to get cavities and rotten
teeth at an early age. Carbonated drinks are especially bad for persons with acid
indigestion or stomach ulcer.
Natural drinks you make from fruits are healthier and often much cheaper than
carbonated drinks.
Do not get your children used to drinking carbonated drinks.