Introduction

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious and Most Merciful. Praise be to Allah SWT and peace be upon His last Prophet Muhammad SAW, the Prophet’s family and relatives, the companions, and those who believe.

In conjunction with the community nutrition course, we would like to organize a nutrition program entitled “My Diet Buddy”. This project is an online intervention program for the selected e-community group which will be conducted from 26th October 2020 until 21st December 2020, with the theme of Family Weight Management. This program aims to provide evidence-based nutrition information and various tips on a healthy lifestyle and weight management in terms of awareness, knowledge, and practices. 

The programs comprise various beneficial activities that will be conducted by each group such as online sharing (talk), online coaching, challenges, quizzes, and many more.  As stated in Al-Qur’an, “O mankind! Eat of that which is lawful and good on the earth and follow not the footsteps of shaitan. Verily he is to you an open enemy. (Al-Baqarah:168)”. In this verse, Allah not only tells us to eat what is halal but also what is healthy. Prophet Muhammad SAW also encouraged us to provide our body with proper food and physical activities that give us the strength and energy to improve our acts of Ibadah and become a healthy and better Muslim.  We pray that Allah will bless our effort and all the hard work that is done to make this program successful.

The objectives of this program are:

1. To increase awareness of the importance of healthy eating and physical activities in the effort to reduce the prevalence of obesity and the risk of non-communicable disease.

2. To provide proper knowledge on how to choose/prepare healthy food and how to be physically active daily

3. To enable and encourage the participants to apply all the knowledge in their daily life while improving their quality of life.

Here is the program overview: