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High blood pressure or hypertension is a common condition where a long-term force of the blood in your artery walls is high enough that may eventually cause some health problems, like heart diseases. If remains uncontrolled, it will also make you at a high risk of having serious health problems, including stroke and heart attack. Fortunately, we can now easily detect using a sphygmomanometer, and once you know that you have high blood pressure, you can work it with your doctor as soon as possible to control it. But did you know that potassium is commonly used to treat high blood pressure? Yes, it is!
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Read more: LGU-Siayan’s Biggest Loser Challenge: Adult and School Children Edition
To address the problem of obesity and hypertension among children and adults, the municipality of Siayan, Zamboanga del Norte (LGU-Siayan) successfully launched its annual “Biggest Loser Challenge: Adult and Schoolchildren Edition last March 22, 2022. As part of the LGUs strategies to reduce the number of obese individuals in the municipality, this program was designed to encourage the target groups to lose weight, improve physical activity, and make lifestyle changes while having fun.
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Are you concerned about your babies getting enough iron and curious to know about how to boost iron absorption on their diet? Here is a closer look to know briefly about the importance and recommended iron-rich foods for your babies.
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Nutrition in Emergencies (NiE) is a collection of nutrition services provided as part of emergency preparedness, response, and recovery to prevent nutritional deterioration and death. These can include nutritional assessment; infant and young child feeding promotion, protection, and support; management of acute malnutrition, micronutrient supplementation, and other interventions which can be food or non-food-based interventions. NiE differs from nutrition emergencies since the latter refers to the conditions of malnutrition (such as wasting, micronutrient deficiencies, etc.) in emergency-affected populations. Nutrition emergencies can also occur when there is food insecurity, which increases the risk of malnutrition, illness, and death.
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Many of us can’t help but crave sweet foods and some experience it regularly. This is sometimes the reason why it is so hard to stick to a healthy diet. But did you know that cravings are navigated by your brain's need for a “reward” – not your body’s call for food? Indulging a little of one bite when you crave something sweet is totally fine. But if you tend to give in to overeating sweet treat foods, then it can be the worst thing that you do.
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Let's understand the field of nutrition and dietetics. The title "dietitian" is given to a person who works with patients in a hospital. Dietitians are licensed practitioners to prescribe a diet and provide additional support to a medical team for better recovery of patients and reduction in the length of stay in the hospital. In this article, we will share with you some information on the Nutrition Care Process or NCP which is currently implemented by dietetics practitioners worldwide, with various advantages, including ensuring consistency and clarity of dietetics-related healthcare records and the possibility to collect and analyze patient outcomes. The NCP is a systematic problem-solving method that dietetics professionals have practiced to critically think and make decisions to address nutrition-related problems. It is composed of the following four distinct and interrelated nutrition steps which is the “ADIME Process” which stands for Assessment Diagnosis Intervention Monitoring, and Evaluation.
