Legazpi City. NNC Regional Office V successfully launched the NGF or Giya sa Marhay na Nutrisyon para sa Pilipino on 26 November 2013 at La Piazza Hotel and Convention Center, Legazpi City. The NGF was translated by the media group during their planning-workshop on 30 October. A total of 220 participants consisting of the RNC/RTWG members, Regional BNS Association, NGOs, NAOs, DCNPCs, BHWs, BNSs, peer counselors, and media from different parts of the region attended the said event.

NPC Reario opened the program and explained the importance of NGF encouraging the participants to promote and adopt it to their respective areas. She discussed the 10 messages and their implication to health.

RNC Chair and Regional Director of DOH-CHD V, Gloria J. Balboa delivered an inspirational speech stressing out that nutrition education still remains as the cornerstone to improving the nutritional status of the populations in the long term. Disseminating simple and practical nutrition messages that encourage individuals to consume an adequate and well-balance diet together with a healthy lifestyle is therefore a most desirable objective. She quoted the following from Mahatma Gandhi and Mark Twain as her parting words, ‘Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.’