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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, (PIA) – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) here encouraged government workers to practice healthy habits in their workplace to ensure good health of employees.
Ma. Gisela Lonzaga, nutrition program coordinator here said the Regional Nutrition Committee has already passed a resolution urging regional offices and local government units to observe healthy eating habits by serving nutritious and healthy foods and snacks during meetings, conferences, trainings and other government conventions.
She said this practice has been implemented by the Department of Education in all its offices and schools, serving only healthy foods and beverages and no junk foods.
Lonzaga said employees are also advised to stand once in a while and walk every after an hour of prolonged sitting or vice versa. She said sitting down the whole say is next to smoking, meanings it’s dangerous to one’s health.
Offices are also encouraged to have their own “Gulayan sa Opisina”, as a version of the DepEd’s Gulayan sa Paaralan to ensure that safe and fresh fruits and vegetables are made available. (MDCT/GVB/PIA 2-Cagayan)
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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, (PIA) – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) here encouraged government workers to practice healthy habits in their workplace to ensure good health of employees.
Ma. Gisela Lonzaga, nutrition program coordinator here said the Regional Nutrition Committee has already passed a resolution urging regional offices and local government units to observe healthy eating habits by serving nutritious and healthy foods and snacks during meetings, conferences, trainings and other government conventions.
She said this practice has been implemented by the Department of Education in all its offices and schools, serving only healthy foods and beverages and no junk foods.
Lonzaga said employees are also advised to stand once in a while and walk every after an hour of prolonged sitting or vice versa. She said sitting down the whole say is next to smoking, meanings it’s dangerous to one’s health.
Offices are also encouraged to have their own “Gulayan sa Opisina”, as a version of the DepEd’s Gulayan sa Paaralan to ensure that safe and fresh fruits and vegetables are made available. (MDCT/GVB/PIA 2-Cagayan)
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PEÑABLANCA, Cagayan, July 16 (PIA) - - The chief executive of this town has urged every Peñablancano and other stakeholders to support his vision of creating a healthy and malnutrition-free municipality.
During the kick-off ceremony of this year’s Nutrition Month Celebration, Mayor Washington M. Taguinod emphasized the essence of the theme: “Kumain nang Wasto at Maging Aktibo…Push Natin to”, which encourages every family to be conscious on the foods served in the table, the proper diet and active engagement in physical activities to keep every Penablancaño well-nourished and healthy.
“We keep on reminding and educating our people on what to do to make every member of the family healthy. We will never cease of creating awareness and educating the public until we achieve a healthy and malnutrition-free Peñablanca,” the mayor said.
As part of the month-long celebration, skills exhibition of students from the different elementary schools on poster-slogan making was conducted during the kick-off event.
Alex Sibbaluca, municipal environment and natural resources officer and chair of the contest, said despite the far distance of the elementary schools to the town hall, students never hesitated to showcase their talents in the poster-slogan making contest.
The student artist from Dodan Elementary School bagged the first place, followed by the representatives from Quibal Elementary School and Sisim Elementary School who placed second and third, respectively. Callao Elementary School and Nanguilattan Elementary School bets are in fourth and fifth places, respectively. Other contestants received consolation prizes from the municipal government.
Read more: Peñablanca dad envisions malnutrition-free municipality
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Cauayan City, Isabela, July 16 (PIA)--The City Nutrition Office here proposed that there should be reserved seats for lactating mothers in all passenger buses here.
“We want all passenger buses to reserve special nursing seats considering the inconvenience that lactating mothers may feel when they need to feed their babies on a bus,” City Nutrition Officer Mary Jane Yadao said.
Yadao said their proposal is really beneficial for breastfeeding mothers as they need to feed their babies every 2 to 4 hours.
“If they are on the bus for hours, it is then necessary for the bus company to provide a quiet, safe and private space for them,” the city nutrition officer said.
At present, only the management of the Dalin Liner Incorporated bus company in this city has complied with the proposal.
Yadao praised the bus company for their prompt action, saying such move is not only to provide quality service to their customers but also to promote and encourage breastfeeding.
“We are hoping that more bus companies will adhere to our proposal,” Yadao added. (ALM/MGE/PIA-2/Isabela)
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SANTIAGO CITY, Isabela, July 3 (PIA) -- Some 500 participants attended the kick-off celebration of the 2019 Nutrition Month in the region spearheaded by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) in partnership with the City Government of Santiago held at the Bulwagan ng Mamamayan on Monday. Maria Gisela Lonzaga, nutrition program coordinator said, this year’s theme “Kumain nang Wasto at maging Aktibo, Push Natin ‘To” aims to encourage everyone to eat balanced diet and to exercise regularly to have a healthy life.
“Through this launching, we will be able to advocate healthy diet and physical activities for a healthy life. Our main goal is to decrease the risk of non-communicable diseases which is diabetes and hypertension,” Lonzaga said.
The launching started with a Grand Nutri-walk participated in by stakeholders and schoolchildren who are identified as “obese” and “overweight”.
“The schoolchildren-participants are obese and overweight because we want to emphasize that when we talk about malnourished, it is not only about being underweight,” Lonzaga added.
During the launching, participants were also engaged in physical activities such as Zumba, Zumbata and Laro ng Lahi.
Earlier, Lonzaga said children should be encouraged to engage more on physical activities such as playing Laro ng Lahi.
Read more: Nutri-walk, ZumBATA, Laro ng Lahi, highlight Nutri Month celeb in R2
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TUGUEGARAO CITY, Cagayan, July 10 (PIA) -- The governor has ordered all employees of the provincial government to have at least 4-minute exercise twice a day and to undergo health examination.
Marvie Pauig, nutritionist and dietitian III, said Governor Manuel Mamba has issued the conduct of "hataw exercises within the office premises of every department since December 2017" and still being observed by employees up to this time.
Pauig was one of the guests during the July 9 episode of Tipon Tipan sa PIA on the Provincial Health Office (PHO) and National Nutrition Council's (NNC) lined-up activities for the Nutrition Month celebration.
“The employees should do short physical exercises every 10 o’clock in the morning and 3 o’clock in the afternoon in their respective offices to avoid any health risk caused by prolonged sitting,” Pauig said.
Pauig said physical exercises are not necesarilly those extreme by nature but could be in the form of stretching, walking around the office, going to and from first to second floors, among others.
When asked on the how they monitor the compliance of all employees on the said order, Pauig said the department heads are responsible to look in to their respective staff.
On her part, Maria Gisela Lonzaga, program cordinator of the NNC here, said there are health complications associated with prolonged sitting.
Lonzaga who lauded the efforts of Governor Mamba and the PHO for the issuance of the said order said prolonged sitting is equivalent to a smoker. "Diseases can be developed due to habitual inactivity,” she added.
In an article published by Harvard Medical School, “habitual inactivity raises risks for obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, deep-vein thrombosis, and metabolic syndrome”.
Aside from employees, Lonzaga also reiterated that even young children must exercise regularly as cases of obesity in the region are increasing among children due to inactivity, especially schoolchildren.
She said it is also attributed to the increasing screen time of the children when they are at home having more time in watching television and using electronic gadgets rather than playing or doing physical activities.
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