National Capital Region

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 14 January 2019

QC weight loss challenge with caption Quezon City through Mayor Herbert Bautista and Vice Mayor Joy Belmonte joined the Fit Filipino (Fit Fil) National Weight Loss Challenge to promote healthy lifestyle among its city hall employees and community residents. Mayor Bautista and Vice Mayor Belmonte were joined by fitness coaches Jim and Toni Saret during the campaign’s launch held on November 5, 2018.

Mayor Bautista pledged a total of 50,000 pounds weight loss among its city employees, including him, and community residents to build a fitter and healthier city.

During the launch, Mayor Bautista emphasized the importance of having a healthy lifestyle at home and at work. He also said that healthy lifestyle cannot be achieved through proper diet alone but should be partnered with regular exercise as well. He encouraged all city employees to accept the weight loss challenge not only for the sake of achieving the goal of this project but also to preventing the development of non-communicable diseases due to obesity.

During the launch, weight and height measurements of city officials including Mayor Bautista were taken by city nutritionist-dietitians and were followed by a zumba session led by fitness coaches Jim and Toni Saret participated in by city hall employees.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 21 December 2018

cdnpc conf photo with caption The National Capital Region (NCR), commonly known as Metro Manila is the center of culture, economy, education, and government of the Philippines. Designated as a global power city, NCR exerts a significant impact on commerce, finance, education, technology, media, art, fashion, research, and entertainment, both locally and internationally. Despite its highly urbanized state, NCR suffers the effects of malnutrition. In fact, the region has a double burden of malnutrition in the form of undernutrition and overnutrition (overweight and obesity) affecting both children and adults. (Regional Plan of Action Nutrition 2019-2022, NCR)

Faced with the challenge of double of malnutrition, the City/District Nutrition Program Coordinators (C/DNPC) of Metro Manila Association aims to promote ways on achieving good health in a highly urbanized setting such as Metro Manila, thus, became the focus of the 33^rd Annual C/DNPC Regional Conference with the theme “Being healthy in the city – Making it possible!” held on November 23, 2018 at the Century Park Hotel, Malate, Manila. The conference conducted in partnership with the National Nutrition Council – National Capital Region (NNC-NCR) was attended by 117 C/DNPCs together with guests and partners from NGOs, hospital and academe.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 29 November 2018

policy review with caption The National Nutrition Council at the National Capital Region (NNC-NCR) conducted a policy review of resolution issued by the Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) of NCR in 2015. The resolution reviewed was Resolution No. 4, Series of 2015 “Enjoining LGUs in the NCR to adopt the LNC Functionality Checklist”.

The policy review was held on November 9, 2018 at St. Giles Hotel, Makati City. It was attended by eight (8) representatives from the local government units (LGUs) composed of nutrition action officer, medical nutrition program coordinator, local nutrition program coordinators and barangay nutrition scholars and six (6) representatives from the RNC member agencies. The workshop was facilitated by NNC-NCR Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Ms. Milagros Elisa Federizo assisted by Nutrition Officers Emerenciana Francia, Theresa Rivas and Bea Menorca.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 18 December 2018

The National Nutrition Council – NCR encouraged school children to live a healthy lifestyle as the main nutrition message of the 3^rd School Media Caravan held on November 20, 2018 at Pembo Elementary School, Makati City. The event was held in partnership with the regional media group NCR Nutrition Communication Resource Group (NCR²).

Conceptualized in 2016, the school media caravan is a strategy of NNC-NCR and NCR2 to promote good nutrition among school children and high school students. Developing healthy eating habits with regular physical exercise are essential for good health that they will carry on in adulthood. It is important to teach children at a young age the value of good nutrition and healthy lifestyle.

This year, the school media caravan focused on healthy diet and physical activity among school children. A total of 150 Grade 4 pupils of Pembo Elementary School participated in the half-day event.

Principal Mr. Allan Arcilla welcomed the guests and participants while Dr. Frederick Frago, Deputy for Clinical Operation of Makati City Health Department, gave a message on behalf of City Nutrition Action Officer Dr. Bernard Sese.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 29 November 2018

rbatf monitoring with caption Members of the Regional Bantay Asin Task Force (RBATF) of NCR composed of representatives from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Ms. Vilma Marquez and National Nutrition Council – NCR’s Nutrition Officer I Bea Menorca visited the warehouse of McCormick Philippines, Inc. and Salinas Foods, Inc. as part of their monitoring and evaluation of the ASIN Law in the region.

The monitoring visit was conducted on October 24, 2018 at the warehouses located at Novaliches, Quezon City. They were also joined by members of the Local Bantay Asin Task Force (LBATF) of Quezon City: Nutritionist-Dietitians Misses Eva Perono and Adelfa Gajelloma and Sanitary Inspector Ms. Carmencita Karamihan.

Republic Act 8172 known as “An Act Promoting Salt Iodization Nationwide and for Related Purpose”, or commonly called “ASIN LAW” is an initiative of the government to address Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) ensuring that all food-grade salt for human and animal consumption and those used for processed foods and in food establishments should be iodized.

Details: Category: Region NCR; Published: 10 December 2018

panel discussion with caption Around 350 Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) from the 17 local government units (LGUS) in Metro Manila gathered on November 6-7, 2018 to commemorate the 40^th year of the BNS Program as per Presidential Decree (PD) 1569. The celebration, conducted through a two-day conference with the theme “BNS: Bayani ng Nutrisyon – Noon, Ngayon at Bukas!”, was held at the Century Park Hotel, Manila.

BNSs are front-line workers in the barangay who provide basic nutrition and related services and serve as the link between the service providers and the families. Presidential Decree 1569 was promulgated on June 11, 1978 to improve the implementation of barangay nutrition program through the deployment of at least one (1) BNS in every barangay. The decree also mandated the National Nutrition Council (NNC) to administer the BNS program.

Aside from the celebration of the 40^th anniversary of the BNS program, this year’s conference also aimed to mobilize the BNSs to implement the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022 in their barangays and to strengthen the local BNS Associations to build up the Regional BNS Federation.