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Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 24 September 2022

Getting enough quality sleep can help you feel your best, says Alexa Fry of the Sleep Foundation. Healthy sleep habits enhance mood, memory, creativity, and learning. A balanced diet is simpler to maintain and the immune system is strengthened by getting enough sleep. On the other hand, if you don't get enough sleep, you could feel sluggish, confused, melancholy, and low-spirited. When you are not sleeping well, it can sometimes be easy to tell. In other instances, a lack of sleep and its negative effects might creep up on you gradually, making it possible for you to get used to them without realizing how they are affecting your health and quality of life.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 23 September 2022

If you're an adventurous eater who like eggs, you might have noticed that duck eggs are beginning to appear on restaurant menus, in markets, and even in some grocery stores, according to Anne Danahy of Healthline. In comparison to a large-sized hen's egg, duck eggs are famous for being over 50% bigger. Many people adore them for their rich, extra-eggy flavor and for having a huge, golden, creamy yolk. Furthermore, their shells are also a visual pleasure. Duck eggs' shells can be any hue, including pale blue, blue-green, charcoal gray, and infrequently white, in contrast to the white or brown of chicken eggs. Although the shell color can occasionally change even within the same breed, the color of the duck depends on its breed.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 22 September 2022

Measuring MUAC MUAC is a quick and simple tool that is used to detect severe malnutrition, especially during emergencies using a simple coloured plastic strip. It is predominately used to measure the upper arm circumference of 6-59 months old children and pregnant women to identify malnutrition. There are different types of MUAC tape available. All are graduated in millimetres and some are colour coded (red, yellow and green) to indicate the nutritional status of a child or adult. The colour codes and gradations vary depending on the tape type.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 23 September 2022

MOP Roll Out 12-19 September 2022 -- NNC9 Development Management Officer II Ms. Rowence F. Zorilla together with the other trained supervisors from DOH 9 NDDPs Ms. Kristel Joy P. Ubas and Ms. Bianca Balbin, ZDN Provincial Nutrition Office staff Ms. Carlady Charm A. Romarate, Mr. Isaiah Thomas Lim and Ms. Nemia Aboyo, MHOs, MNAOs, MNPCs and midwives of the four KOICA areas has successfully conducted a Roll Out Training for the project entitled "Technical Support to NNC in the Development of Data Quality Audit Protocol for the Operation Timbang Plus (OPT Plus) and Updating of Implementing Guidelines" in the municipalities of Siayan, Godod, Leon B. Postigo and Sindangan, Zamboanga del Norte. The rollout training aims to train the OPT Plus Team on the OPT Plus Manual of Operations (MOP) and Data Quality. The training was participated by no less than 88 Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNS), Barangay Health Workers (BHWs), Midwives, Barangay Kagawad, Sangguniang Kabataan (SK), and nurses of the four KOICA areas in the Province of Zamboanga del Norte.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 21 September 2022

farm The word "farm-to-table" might signify different things to different people. A farm-to-table approach requires putting "food on the table that came directly from a specific farm, without going through a store, market, or distributor along the way," which can enhance national food security while fostering the growth of a more environmentally and socially responsible food system and supply chain. The farm-to-table movement emerged around at the same time when attitudes toward food safety, food freshness, food seasonality, and small-farm economics began to change. Farm to table food path concerns the procedures and circumstances under which food is grown, prepared, and consumed in order to provide food security, a balanced diet, and good health.

Details: Category: Region 9; Published: 23 September 2022

Under House Bill 5307, the fourth week of September each year is recognized as National Thyroid Cancer Awareness Week. Through educational and informational efforts on thyroid cancer's causes, effects, diagnosis, prevention, and therapies, the level of public knowledge will be raised.