The Daxiang Food Education Association surveyed the political opinions of the county and mayor candidates on nutritious lunches, and only 20% had relevant political opinions.

(Provided by Daxiang Food Education Association)

[Reporter Lin Xiaoyun/Taipei Report] The county mayor election will be voted the day after tomorrow. On November 14, the Great Enjoyment Food Education Association jointly launched the "Nutritious Lunch Policy Opinion, County Mayor Candidates Please Answer!" survey action, inviting 94 county and city mayor candidates across the country People announced their nutritional lunch political opinions. As of yesterday, 14 counties and cities including Taichung mayor candidate Cai Qichang and Nantou county mayor candidate Cai Peihui received replies from 19 county and mayor candidates. The association stated that 80% of the county mayor candidates did not disclose their nutritional lunch political opinions .

Huang Jialin, secretary-general of the Great Food and Education Association, said that the main decision-maker for school lunch policy is the head of the county or city, but from media reports and surveys conducted by the association, it can be seen that only 20% of the candidates for the county and city mayor have shown that they are compatible with the parents of voters. 80% of the candidates have not announced the relevant political opinions on the topic of communicating about nutritious lunches. However, even if there are mentions of nutritious lunch political opinions, most of the content mainly focuses on free meals or subsidies of 5 yuan or 10 yuan. It is rare to comprehensively analyze the importance of local school lunches. Issues, stocktaking and review of the current situation, and rarely put forward solutions and visions, and even voters who care about schoolchildren's nutritious lunches have difficulty asking candidates and making suggestions.

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Huang Cuihua, member of the school committee of the National Federation of Dietitians of the Republic of China, said that school lunch is not only a meal for schoolchildren, but also a demonstration of healthy eating. Through diet and nutrition education, students can learn and develop healthy eating habits from an early age to cope with various chronic diseases Such as diabetes, high blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, cancer and other problems that are getting younger and younger. The healthy growth of students is more related to national strength. School nutritionists play the key to students' diet health. Combined with good policy promotion, start from the local area and implement It is the top priority, but in the minds of candidates for local county and city chiefs, it is deeply regrettable that students' nutritious lunch and diet nutrition education are so low in importance.

The Daxiang Food Education Association stated that the candidates for county mayors in response to the announcement of nutritional lunch political opinions include: Keelung City: Chen Weizhong, Cai Shiyi, Taipei City: Zhang Jiahao, Jiang Wanan, Taoyuan City: Zhang Shanzheng, Zheng Baoqing, Hsinchu City: Li Jiqun, Hsinchu County: Zhou Jiangjie , Miaoli County: Song Guoding, Taichung City: Cai Qichang, Changhua County: Wang Huimei, Nantou County: Cai Peihui, Chiayi County: Wengzhangliang, Chiayi City: Li Junyu, Huang Minhui, Tainan City: Huang Weizhe, Yilan County: Lin Zimiao, Chen Wanhui, Lianjiang County: Cao Eryuan .

The Daxiang Food Education Association surveyed the political opinions of the county and mayor candidates on nutritious lunches, and only 20% had relevant political opinions.

(Provided by Daxiang Food Education Association)