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The city government of Caloocan, in its commitment to improve its nutrition program, hired an additional 179 Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) on August 2015 and continues to deploy them in 2016. To date, there are 247 BNSs covering the city’s 188 barangays.
Barangay Nutrition Scholars are community-based nutrition workers who provide basic nutrition and related services to the communities, particularly to malnourished children and their families. They also serve as the link between the community and the service providers.
In 2014, there were only 14 BNSs in the city. This scarce human resource for nutrition made it difficult for the local nutrition committees to reach their service targets for nutrition and related programs and services. A notable decline in the coverage of Operation Timbang Plus (OPT) in 2014 was seen. The city’s weighing coverage in 2014 was only 43.79%, the lowest in Metro Manila. OPT is the massive weighing of children 0-71 months old which aims to determine the prevalence of malnutrition at the barangay level and guide local program planners in planning and implementing appropriate nutrition programs.
Read more: Caloocan City deploys more BNSs for its 188 Barangays
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The 2015 Operation Timbang (OPT) Plus results reveal a declining trend in under and over nutrition among children less than six years old in Metro Manila. The OPT Plus is a massive weighing of preschool children 0-71 months old done every year by Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) with the help of other community-based health and nutrition workers to identify and locate malnourished children. The OPT data also guide local nutrition committees in planning programs and services for malnourished children and their families.
A declining trend in all forms of malnutrition (underweight, overweight, wasting or thinness and stunting) among preschool children was noted from 2014 to 2015. A total of 1,756,792 were weighed and measured for height in 2015.
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Thirty six (36) City/District Nutrition Program Coordinators from all over Metro Manila together with NNC-NCR NPC Mila V. Federizo and technical staff travelled all the way to Naga City for their 2016 Study Tour and Teambuilding activities anchored on the theme: “Better. Bolder. Stronger. Forever.” held on January 20-22, 2016. The Association of Metro Manila C/DNPCs with the support from the NNC-NCR yearly conducts a Study Tour in areas with good NPM practices where they can learn from and observe nutrition strategies that they can adopt in their respective localities.
Naga City was chosen as the study tour site because of its distinction of being one of the first local government units to receive the Nutrition Honor Award, the highest award given by the National Nutrition Council to a local government unit for their outstanding efforts in nutrition program management. Naga City got the award in 1998 and managed to sustain their good nutrition program management through the years.
Read more: Metro Manila C/DNPCs visit Naga City for Study Tour and Team Building
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QUEZON CITY 28 Jan. (PIA)--Mandaluyong City was recently awarded as the 2015 Most Child-Friendly City in the National Capital Region (NCR).
The Regional Committee for the Welfare of Children RCWC), an inter-agency committee under the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) conferred the Seal of Child-Friendly Governance on January 22, 2016 at Wack Wack Golf and Country Club in Mandaluyong City.
Mandaluyong City garnered 95% score in the Child-Friendly Local Governance Audit (CFLGA) conducted last year by the RCWC-NCR team composed of focal persons from different government agencies and non-government organization and spearheaded by the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG).
Fifteen of the 17 local government units (LGUs) in NCR passed the qualifying score of 75% for the conferment of the “”Seal of the Child-Friendly Governance”. For garnering the highest score, Mandaluyong was cited as the Most Child-Friendly LGU in the region and will vie for the national title of the Presidential Search for Child-Friendly City in the highly urbanized city category.
Under the leadership of Mandaluyong City mayor BenHur Abalos, ably aided by his wife Madame Carmencita “Menchie” Abalos, the Local Committee for the Protection of Children (LCPC) and the members of the Barangay Committee for the Protection of Children (BCPC), Mandaluyong has been garnering local and international recognition for its social development programs.
Read more: Mandaluyong City bags “Most Child-Friendly City" in NCR
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The National Nutrition Council – National Capital Region (NNC-NCR) joins the nation in the observance of Goiter Awareness Week (GAW) this last week of January 2016. GAW is celebrated every fourth week of January as declared by Proclamation No. 1188, s. 2006 to promote public awareness on Goiter and Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD). According to this proclamation, the Philippines was once declared as the most goitrous country in Asia and is presently classified by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a nation in transition from being iodine-deficient to iodine sufficient.
Iodine can be found mainly in salt water fishes, shellfishes, seaweeds and in some vegetables that are cultivated in iodine-rich soil. Only a tiny amount of iodine is needed in a person’s daily diet (150-300 milligrams) which means that in our whole lifetime, all we need to consume is just one teaspoon of iodine. Inadequate intake of iodine can lead to iodine deficiency disorders (IDD), the most common of which is goiter. Studies show that IDD impairs fetal brain development and can result to a lifetime intellectual deficit of 10 – 15 IQ points in newborn children.
The use of iodized salt is the most practical way of getting the iodine from our daily diet. This is being emphasized in this year’s theme, “Goiter Sugpuin, Isip Patalinuhin, Iodized Salt Gamitin”. In support of this nationwide observance, NNC-NCR will disseminate information on IDD and its prevention, particularly the use of adequately iodized salt and the consumption of iodine-rich foods through the social media and its nutrition networks.
“Goiter Sugpuin, Isip Patalinuhin, Iodized Salt Gamitin!”
(MABRM/MEVF/NNCNCR)
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QUEZON CITY, 09 Feb., (PIA) – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) is holding a series of advocacy meeting nationwide to scale up iron rice fortification (IFR) to address iron deficiency anemia (IDA).
The advocacy meeting held on February 1, 2016 at Richville Hotel in Mandaluyong City is the second to the series and targeted participants from the National Capital Region (NCR) and Region IV-A or CALABARZON. Participants came from government agencies (NGAs), non-government organizations (NGOs), local government units (LGUs) and other private sector.
NNC-NCR Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator (RNPC) Milagros Villegas Federizo gave the welcome speech where she underscores the importance of the presence of the participants as each will help craft the plan to determine possible social marketing activities to scale up IFR in the two regions for the elimination of IDA.
The past efforts to enjoin the public to buy and eat IFR has not been successful because of its lingering taste and smell as well as its “old stock rice” color.
Following this, a study was made entitled “Philippine Rice Consumption for Social Safety Net Programs”. The social safety net (SSN) is a term used to describe a collection of services provided by the state or other institutions to include welfare, healthcare and food aid.
