2022 Nutrition Month Theme Chosen
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The National Nutrition Council Technical Committee approved through ad referencum the theme for this year’s Nutrition Month campaign in July which is “New normal na nutrisyon, sama-samang gawan ng solusyon!”. The theme calls for strengthened nutrition interventions and solidarity towards nutrition improvement as the country shifts towards living with the COVID-19 virus. The theme signifies the key role of nutrition in building resilience from pandemic to endemic paradigm. The term “new normal” was adopted to signify a transition to a better normal while bringing the positive impacts of the pandemic to become more resilient and to prevent future pandemics.
The pandemic has made a huge impact on nutrition such as disruptions in the delivery of nutrition and related services, increased hunger incidence due, and many more. But there are also positive impacts such as innovation in service delivery, home food production, increased awareness of one’s health and consuming healthy diets, and the solidarity amongst the people to help each other.
NNC Celebrates the 2022 National Women’s Month
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(T-B) NNC's Women's Month Webinar Resource Speakers and NNC Central Office personnel
The National Nutrition Council (NNC) celebrates National Women’s Month this March to recognize the significant contribution of women in nation-building,. The theme "WE Make CHANGE Work for Women: Agenda ng Kababaihan, Tungo sa Kaunlaran!" aims to inform and engage women as pioneers and beneficiaries of government programs and services to make “change” happen.
As part of the celebration, the NNC organized a Women’s Month webinar on 08 March 2022 featuring topics on gender-fair language and women achievers in nutrition. As the webinar was also streamed live over NNC’s Facebook page, partners including barangay nutrition scholars joined the NNC personnel in attendance.
Everybody Needs to Act to Curb Obesity
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Members of the Ad Hoc Group on Obesity and Resource persons during the 2022 World Obesity Webinar
About 27 million Filipinos across all age groups are living with overweight and obesity, and this accounts for about a third of the population. Overweight and obesity is one of the major public health and nutritional problems of the country. Its ballooning trend calls for collective and strategic actions to transform the obesogenic environment into a health-promoting that supports the physical, mental, and social well-being of every Filipino.
The government leads in addressing overnutrition through health promotion and disease prevention approaches in various settings including schools, communities, and workplaces. The Department of Health (DOH) in collaboration with key government agencies and stakeholders are implementing evidence-based strategies including the issuance of guidelines on the conduct of health-enhancing physical activities and sports during the Covid-19 pandemic, national policy on the elimination of industrially-produced trans-fatty acids, continuously work on promotion and creating safe and active transport as well as institutionalizing karinderyas as nutrition service providers for supplemental feeding services for malnutrition.
Nutriskwela Radio Teams Gather for 10th Nutriskwela Conference
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About 300 radio station personnel and members of community radio councils participated in the virtual 10th National Conference of the Nutriskwela Radio Network held from 25 to 27 January 2022. The annual event organized by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) for its network of 50 community radio stations with partners from local government unit (LGU) and state university and colleges.
NNC’s Executive Director Assistant Secretary and Dr. Azucena M. Dayanghirang delivered the welcome message joining Health Undersecretary Dr. Maria Rosario Vergeire with her keynote message. Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Advisor for the Philippines Atty. Karlo Alexei Nograles and Department of Education Director Lope Santos III gave their respective messages of support to the Nutriskwela program and stressed the vital role of radio programming in disseminating accurate development information among the population and in addressing malnutrition. The conference was also graced by Mr. Ramnath Bhat of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Engr. Analiza Buenviaje of the National Telecommunication Commission (NTC), and Director Eloisa David of the Commission on Elections, who discussed important topics along with radio regulations and broadcasting guidelines during the election period.
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