Exhibition

Do not miss OKAVANGO ARTISTS ASSOCIATION's annual members exhibition. Official opening, Thursday 30th August 2018, at the Nhabe Museum, Maun. 6pm. The greatest visual artists in the region - paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, baskets, crafts, beadworks, etc!

Coffee made from Botswana

This coffee is a product made by a Motswana woman from Kolonkwaneng. It's made from Motlopi (Shepherd Tree).You can get yourself one for only P25.00 at my book launch on September 7th.Only locally made products will be sold at the stalls.Venue will be announced by Friday.

The LEA Tsabong office has been mentoring and monitoring her progress since inception.Mpho Leboane and Mbaki Letso Moiteelasilo have been quite helpful in assisting her with marketing #proudlyBW

University of Botswana Medical School

Since its inception in 2009, the UB Medical School has so far graduated 200 doctors and most of whom practise in public hospitals - Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Dr Oatlhokwa Nkomazana.

Exhibition at Nhabe Museum

Exhibitions are an opportunity for a large number of buyers and sellers in an industry to come into a direct contact with each other at the same time.They offer an unparalleled and ideal opportunity to show case products and services to a highly targeted audience. For such reasons, Nhabe Museum will conduct a market craft on the 25th of August at 0900hrs to 1500hrs. This will help our local artists establish and maintain good relations with their customers. This event will be free.

Association between depression in carers and malnutrition in children aged 6 months to 5 years

Authors: Keneilwe Motlhatlhedi, Vincent Setlhare, Adewale B.Ganiyu, Jacqueline A. Firth

Childhood malnutrition is an important risk factor for child mortality and underlies close to 50% of child deaths worldwide.1,2 Reducing the prevalence of malnutrition may contribute to the success of child survival strategies.2 In order to curb the high prevalence of malnutrition, it is important to identify and address all factors that contribute to poor child nutrition. Depression, one of the most prevalent mental illnesses, is more common in women of child-bearing age,3 and maternal depression has been linked to poor child growth outcomes in developing countries.4,5 Globally, an estimated 350 million people suffer from depression with higher prevalence in lowand middle-income countries. A South African study estimated depression prevalence rates of 9.7%, while two studies in Botswana found depression prevalence of 25% and 31%. Both studies in Botswana may be an overestimation of the population prevalence of depression in the country as they were done in high HIV prevalence settings and HIV is associated with higher depression levels.6,7 Inclusion of mental health screening of PCGs could help develop more efficacious child nutrition programmes and identify children at higher risk of poor outcomes.

Read full text here https://phcfm.org/index.php/phcfm/article/view/1270/1948

Here's what parents should really do about kids who are picky eaters: COLUMN

The dinner table can be a war zone. Peas end up in mommy’s hair, tears and screams abound, and the term "full" can only be used to describe the floor. Is this battle of parents versus picky eaters even worth fighting? A new study in the medical journal Appetite shows that picky toddlers who are pressure fed by their parents don't grow at healthier rates and don't stop their picky-eating behaviors.

As a child psychiatrist, I agree. The emotional cost of getting a few vitamins in their vegetables just does not outweigh the numerous benefits of making dinner a fun, nurturing experience. Forcing children to eat something they don't want to eat isn't good for their physical, emotional or psychological health.

Here's why, and what families should focus on instead.

Parents, many of whom were required when they were kids to clean their plates before leaving the table, might say that their goal for pressuring their kids to eat is to help their children become less picky with food and to make sure that their kids maintain healthy growth. This rarely ends up having the intended benefit. The new study just examined over 200 picky-eating toddlers and showed that pressuring kids to eat just didn't help. The kids in the study were ages 2 to 6, which is prime time for refusing greens as their growth slows, and their appetites follow.

Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, a pediatrician who is an ABC News contributor, weighs in. "Little babies eat frequently and triple their weight in the first year of life," she says. "But it's normal for their growth and appetites to slow after that, and for them to start telling us what they like."

Read more https://abcnews.go.com/Health/parents-kids-picky-eaters-column/story?id=56927222