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BANAUE, Ifugao, Nov. 19 (PIA) - - Eight schools in the province are vying for the 2012 search for Best Nutritionally Friendly School (BNFS).
The search for BNFS is one of the local initiatives of the provincial government to ensure safe, nutritious snacks to pupils. It advocates for nutritious foods for Filipinos, and promotes the choice of selecting indigenous, native delicacies with high nutritive value aware on their importance as against junk foods.
Corazon Dawong, nutrition program coordinator, disclosed that eight schools had confirmed their intent to participate in said contest to encourage school management help provide supplemental feeding to identified very low nutritional status as part of the process of the canteen.
“Out of the said participants, five are for elementary category and three for central school category,” Dawong said.
Dr. Mary Josephine Dulawan, Provincial Nutrition Action Officer (PNAO), explained that members of the PNC technical working group (TWG) will be going to the different schools starting on Wednesday, November 21.
“This is a venue for providing IEC to schoolers and guiding them to maintain an ideal normal weight and become aware of the negative effects of being obese and overweight,” she added.
Dulawan disclosed that the criteria for the contest are : health and sanitation of the school - 40 percent, nutrition or content of the canteen - 30 percent, and school garden - 30 percent.(JDP/ MBL -PIA CAR, Ifugao)
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BANGUED, Abra, Nov. 26 (PIA) -- The National Center for Disease Prevention and Control of the Department of Health – Center for Health Development (DOH-CHD) had adopted the Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Program to prevent child mortality and morbidity.
In a seminar-orientation conducted by the DOH-CHD, the municipal health nurses in the province were taught of the guiding principles, methodologies and strategies of implementing the IYCF Program to be able to follow the use of the new standard of weight measurement to determine the nutritional status of every child.
The new standards of weight measurement takes into consideration other factors of determining the nutritional status of a child like the weight plus the height or length of the child, and not simply limited to the weight alone.
The IYCF Program was designed to contribute to the attainment of the Millennium Development Goals 1, 4 and 5 to reduce child and infant mortality and morbidity particularly to insure and accelerate the promotion and protection of infants and young children aged zero to five years old.
While the government has existing laws and policies that support the IYCF, the feeding practices for the infants and young children remains poor to fair based on the rating given by the World Health Organization. Hence, the formulation and adoption of the first National IYCF to address problems of poor performance in improving the nutrition status and health of children especially those under-three years old, and consequently reduce mortality among infants and under-five years old children.
There are three pillars that support the key strategies and action points of the implementation of the IYCF namely; the capacity building of the local health service providers, the provision of supportive supervision for the local health providers, and a clear communication plan where all support groups will have to provide the needed information support.
Dr. Leona G. Berona, the provincial action officer of the Abra-Provincial Nutrition Council, said the APHO will ensure the provision of the needed support and supervision of the implementation of the IYCF in the province.(JDP/MTBB-PIA CAR,Abra
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6-12 December 2012-- Two batches of Promote Good Nutrition/ Infant and Young Child Feeding (PGN/ IYCF) Training was conducted for the City/ Municipal Implementers of Benguet Province and Baguio City held at Highpoint Botique Inn, Baguio City. The trainings were attended by 42 participants composed of Municipal Nutrition Action Officers, Midwives, Nurses, District Nutrition Program Coordinators, and other nutrition implementers from Benguet Province and Baguio City.
Participants are expected to conduct trainings on PGN at the barangay level and assist in the organization of community-based breastfeeding support groups and also to facilitate conduct of the Pabasa sa Nutrisyon and the use of the Egg Syllabus and Vegetable Syllabus in the barangays. It is also expected that after the full implementation of the program, it will increase the number of mothers practicing exclusive breastfeeding, proper complementary feeding and enhanced knowledge on proper nutrition which would contribute on the improvement of the regional nutrition situation and the attainment of MDG1 particularly the reduction on the proportion of under-five underweight children.
With the aim of the Promote Good Nutrition (PGN) to improve the food and nutrition knowledge, attitude and practices of Filipino families, the nutrition implementers, through the training were capacitated in the promotion of Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) and healthy eating habits of Filipinos.
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BAGUIO CITY, Nov. 24 (PIA) -- It is important to take care of pregnant women to prevent iron-deficiency anemia and promote normal weight in children, an official of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) said.
In a forum, NNC Executive Director and Department of Health (DOH) Assistant Secretary Maria Bernardita Flores outlined the importance of investing on the health and nutrition of children especially on their first 1,000 days or from pregnancy up to two years old. She said this is a critical period in a child’s life malnutrition in children for two years will result in stunted growth both physically and mentally. Worse, any other intervention would be for naught.
She said a 2008 National Nutrition Survey found that the prevalence of underweight, stunting and wasting among under-five children are 20.6 percent, 32.3 and 6 percent, respectively.
Nutritionally-at-risk pregnant women is also a concern. In 2008, a prevalence rate of 26.3 percent was recorded, almost the same level as the 26.6 percent prevalence rate in 2003, she said.
Flores though expressed the government's optimism that that with proper programs in place, the country will attain its Millennium Development Goal target of cutting in half the prevalence of underweight among preschool children under
MDG No. 1 - Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger.
The country's millennium development goal is to reduce baseline underweight rate from 27.3 percent to 13.7 percent by 2015.
Flores said 2011 data of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) revealed that current underweight rate among pre-schools in the country stands at 20.2 percent.
With the 2nd National Conference of Barangay Nutrition Scholars at the Baguio Country Club, Flores said the NNC hopes to strengthen partnership with the more than 40,000 barangay nutrition scholars all over the country for better implementation of the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2011-2016. (JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
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The National Nutrition Council- Cordillera is now using social networking sites to advance its advocacy not only for the malnourished in the region but also for individuals who must observe a healthy lifestyle to prolong their lives.
NNC-CAR Coordinator Rose Lulu Pagaduan said people could get more information from their regional web page and facebook account which have been set up to guide the public in their daily diet, especially during this Yuletide season.
The agency’s regional web page is www.nnc.gov.ph/regional-offices/car and its facebook fanpage is National Nutrition Council CAR.
“We have to tap all available means of disseminating health tips to the public,” Pagaduan said.
She added the agency is also sponsoring the Nutri-Pakulo sa Facebook to entice the public to like NNC-CAR’s page and win prizes and gain information and knowledge on how to have a good nutrition and live a healthy life.
NNC-CAR will also update its nutrition tips and messages on their sites for those visiting and liking said pages for them to be aware of the latest trends in nutrition and the programs of government agencies and local governments focused on health and nutrition.
Pagaduan said the agency will also be sponsoring a photo contest on Facebook to encourage the public to actively participate in the information dissemination on health and nutrition through social networking sites.(Dexter A. See, CAR-MENU Member)
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BAGUIO CITY, Nov. 22 (PIA) - - The National Nutrition Council (NNC) strengthened its partnership with the barangay nutrition scholars in North and Central Luzon in the second National Conference of Barangay Nutrition Scholars at the Baguio Country Club here.
The conference, attended by over 800 BNS from Regions 1,2, 3 and the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) underscored the important role that BNS play in improving the nutrition situation of the community and their role in national development as a unified federation.
Through the conference with the theme, "Bida ng Barangay, Bida ng Bayan," NNC and its other partner agencies provided the participants with updates on current nutrition and program directions to address hunger and malnutrition and enhance their skills on self-development techniques. It was also a venue to discuss the various concerns of the federation as well as in strengthening camaraderie among them.
NNC Executive Director and Department of Health (DOH) Assistant Secretary Maria Bernadita Flores, in her keynote address, outlined the important role that BNS plays in achieving Millennium Development Goal No. 1 – Eradicate Extreme Poverty and Hunger, particularly in cutting in half the prevalence of underweight among preschool children.
Flores explained that under the MDG goal no. 1, from the baseline underweight rate of 27.3 percent, the country is committed to cut it to 13.7 percent by 2015. “More work need to be done as based on the 2011 data of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) the current underweight rate (among pre-schoolers) in the country stands at 20.2,” she added.
She encouraged the BNS to continue with their passion and hard work in bringing in nutrition and health programs of the national government in their respective communities.
Flores also reiterated President Aquino’s message during the NNC awarding last November 9, where he outlined the importance of investing in the nutrition and health of children especially during their first 1,000 days or from pregnancy up to two years old.
As members of the DOH organized community health teams that are deployed in the different localities all over the country, Flores called for a stronger partnership for the attainment of the Aquino Administration’s health agenda of “Kalusugan Pangkalahatan” and in the implementation of the Philippine Plan of Action on Nutrition.
At present, there are 56,000 fully trained community health teams that are already deployed and being mobilize to cater to the health needs of the people especially the poor household beneficiaries of the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program.
Flores also called on local government units to hire, train, and deploy more BNS. The BNS Federation has listed around 42,000 BNS nationwide.
The Baguio leg of the conference is the third of four BNS conferences scheduled this year.(JDP/CCD-PIA CAR)
