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MANILA – On 23 March 2022, the National Nutrition Council (NNC) announced the best-performing local government units (LGUs) in nutrition during the National Nutrition Awarding Ceremony in Pasay City and via an online platform. These LGUs were able to lower malnutrition levels in their communities by implementing effective nutrition program management.

The municipality of Manolo Fortich in Bukidnon and Tagum City in Davao del Norte received the most coveted Nutrition Honor Award, the highest award requiring LGUs to achieve a minimum score of 95.0 percent as evaluated by a multi-sectoral national nutrition evaluation team. Aside from the trophy, the NNC awarded the two LGUs a grant of PHP 1 million each. To qualify, these LGUs had to put in more than six years of great performance.

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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.

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wmc(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.

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WOD 2022Members 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.