- Details
- Category: Region NCR
Read more: Maintain a healthy weight during COVID-19 pandemic
Maintaining a healthy weight by eating a balanced diet and regular physical activity is important for one’s health. Achieving a healthy weight is challenging to many and even more so during this pandemic. Poor quality of diet and sedentary lifestyle during this ‘new normal’ increase the risks for overweight and obesity.
Overweight and obese individuals are at risk of having many chronic diseases. Obesity also worsens the outcome for COVID-19. Having obesity may triple the risk of hospitalization due to a COVID-19 infection since obesity is linked to impaired immune function. Hence, maintaining a healthy weight by having a balanced, nutritious diet and regular physical activity is essential in fighting off the virus.
- Details
- Category: Region NCR
Read more: COVID-19 pandemic increases risk of Overweight and Obesity
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has drastically changed our lives. It limits our access to affordable healthy foods, safe and convenient places for physical activity, and social interactions resulting to anxiety, stress, and depression that may affect food intake. Poor diet, sedentary, and unhealthy lifestyle due to the pandemic have increased the risk of being overweight or obese.
An individual is considered overweight or obese if his or her weight is higher than what is considered healthy for a given height. The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a screening tool for overweight and obesity. The BMI is a person’s weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters. A high BMI indicates high body fatness. A BMI of 25.0 to <30 means a person is overweight. Having a BMI of 30.0 or higher indicates obesity.
- Details
- Category: Region NCR
Read more: NNC-NCR launches NutriSerye: Usapang Nutrisyon atbp - a webinar series on nutrition
The National Nutrition Council – NCR (NNC-NCR) recognizes the need to capitalize on the use of social media such as Facebook in the promotion of good nutrition especially since almost everyone uses this social media platform. Social media also has a wider coverage in terms of the number of people reached both locally and globally. According to a data published by the Statista Research Department on June 21, 2021, there are 72.5 million Facebook users in the Philippines as of 2019.
In January 2021, the NNC commissioned The EON Group in partnership with Tangere to conduct a survey on Filipinos’ recall on existing programs: 10 Kumainments, First 1000 Days of Life, 2020 Nutrition Month, and the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN). The study revealed that respondents accessed social media first for nutrition-related information. TV came in second, while online websites/search and health centers came in third and fourth, respectively.
- Details
- Category: Region NCR
In a forum conducted by the National Nutrition Council-NCR on August 19, 2021, participants from the 17 local government units composed of nutrition action officers, local nutrition program coordinators and members of the local nutrition committees, and representatives from non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were encouraged to build linkages or partnerships to scale up nutrition actions in the first 1000 days in Metro Manila particularly during this pandemic.
The pandemic has caused disruption of services including nutrition and many Filipinos are faced with the problems and issues on unemployment, food security, food accessibility, and access to health and nutrition programs for children including pregnant women. If these issues are left unsolved, the nutrition situation may worsen.
- Details
- Category: Region NCR
The City of Navotas commits to improve the implementation of the LNEWS-FNS in the city in the new normal during the virtual program implementation review (PIR) held on August 23, 2021. The PIR was attended by members of the city core group, household data collectors and representatives from the five (5) sentinel barangays: North Bay Boulevard South (NBBS), Tangos, Tanza, Daanghari and San Roque.
The LNEWS-FNS or Local Nutrition Early Warning System for Food and Nutrition Security enables the community to act early, based on early warning information gathered from timely data collection, to counter any threat, natural or human-induced that may affect the food and nutrition security situation in the area.
Read more: Navotas City to step up LNEWS-FNS implementation in the new normal
- Details
- Category: Region NCR
Physically active individuals need to fuel their body with good nutrition to meet the demands of exercise and sports training. Having a healthy diet is important to ensure that adequate energy and nutrients sustain the body to make it physically active and well-nourished. Individuals engaged in strenuous physical activities can prevent health conditions such as bone fractures, osteoporosis, and heart problems when they are well-nourished. Good nutrition determines how the body will recover and adapt to the intensity and duration of the exercise or physical activities.
GO foods provide energy and fuel the demands of physical exercise. Eating rice, root crops, pasta, and bread helps sustain blood sugar levels during exercise and improves the quality of physical training. Whole grains like brown rice, corn, oatmeal, and whole wheat bread are also good sources of fiber which are linked to lower risk of heart disease and diabetes.
