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(Nutrition Officer I Angelique Jean Maggay, Cagayan de Oro City) -- 22 August 2022, In celebration of the August 2022 National Breastfeeding Awareness Month, the City Breastfeeding/Infant and Young Child Feeding & EO 51 Task Force in partnership with the Northern Mindanao Medical Center (NMMC) Human Milk Bank and Lactating Unit spearheaded the first milk letting activity during the 2nd Hakab sa Oro at Limketkai Mall, Cagayan de Oro City last 12 August 2022.
A total of 6,375ml volumes of breast milk were collected from forty-two (42) lactating mothers who generously shared their liquid gold and were given food packs (5kg of rice) in return.
Read more: Milk Letting Activity: Liquid gold for the infants of Cagayan de Oro
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People nowadays are fond of serving instant or easy-to-prepare foods, not to mention processed and fried foods; these foods are confirmed to be high in cholesterol. Additional cholesterol from foods is unnecessary since the human body can generate cholesterol as what the body needs.
Cholesterol is a type of lipid. It is crucial to produce some hormones, vitamin D, and cell membranes in the body. Cholesterol is hydrophobic; it does not dissolve in water. Thus, it cannot independently move through your blood; however, the liver generates lipoproteins to aid in transporting cholesterol. There are two significant forms of lipoprotein: particles made from fat and protein. These are low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or the "bad cholesterol," and high-density lipoprotein (HDL), or the "good cholesterol."
Read more: TLC Diet: Healthy fats every day, high cholesterol away!
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25 August 2022, Cagayan de Oro City - National Nutrition Council (NNC) X represented by Development Management Officer II (DMO-PNFP) Lizelle L. Bete embarked another preparation with the Agrarian Reform Beneficiary Organizations (ARBOs) of Lanao del Norte Province for Tutok Kainan program.
As the program's implementation moves steadily forward, DMO II Bete and the five (5) lead ARBOs for Phases 3, 4 & 5 Tutok Kainan Dietary Supplementation Program (TK DSP) convened last 15-17 August 2022 to take up more preparations of the program.
During the meeting, in order to move closer to the completion of paperwork and finally begin the delivery of goods that will jointly carry out profitable activities for their organization, DMO II Bete clarified the delivery process, strategies and plans, food safety guidelines, documents necessary for delivery, as well as their required documents.
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Parents will do anything and everything they can to protect their children, from ensuring a sanitary environment to safe food and water supply. To guarantee that only clean hands touch their child, but are we taking cleanliness too far?
What is Hygiene Hypothesis? The hygiene hypothesis is a hypothesis introduced by David Strachan in 1989. He came up with this idea to explain why we see so many people getting allergies in the 20th century. According to the Mayo Clinic, this hypothesis posits that early childhood exposure to germs and certain diseases aids in the development of the immune system.
Read more: Hygiene Hypothesis: Is there such thing as being “Too Clean”?
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25 August 2022, Cagayan de Oro City – It is the seventh time that the National Nutrition Council Regional Office X receives on-the-job trainees from Central Mindanao University. Five (5) senior BS Nutrition and Dietetics students were given the chance to be immersed in their 300-hour Community Nutrition Practicum at NNC X.
The students, namely, Ms. Junice M. Espinosa, Ms. Lhalene Flores, Ms. Ailean Faith S. Hotohot, Ms. Trisha Mae M. Magallanes and Ms. Joyce Vanessa E. Navaja kick-started their practicum with an orientation held by NNC X technical staff last 24 August 2022 at the NNC X office.
As part of the undergraduate degree requirements, the students are expected to gain knowledge, skills and positive attitudes and work ethics in applying theories into practical situations in nutrition program management. They will also be exposed to NNC X’s programs, activities and functions. Further, the interns will be immersed in barangay nutrition program management. This will be done in coordination with select barangays in Cagayan de Oro City.
Since 2014, the NNC X is Central Mindanao University’s institutional partner in molding future public health nutritionist-dietitians who shall serve as nutrition champions and serve the nutritionally vulnerable groups. (Nutrition Officer III Sheena Marie G. Talle / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. / 09631091098)
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Binge eating disorder (BED) is a serious form of compulsive overeating that occurs when a person consumes an abnormally large quantity of food on a recurrent basis and is unable to stop eating once they have started. (Mayo Clinic, 2018).
BED is a severe, life-threatening, and treatable eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of eating large amounts of food (often very quickly and to the point of discomfort); a sense of loss of control during the binge; feelings of shame, distress, or guilt afterwards; and not regularly using unhealthy compensatory measures (e.g., purging) to counteract the binge eating (NEDA: Feeding Hope, 2022).
Read more: Binge Eating Disorder: The hows, whys, and road to recovery
