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8 August 2022, Cagayan de Oro City – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) X hosted a booth exhibit to further advocate the nutrition program to newly-minted and comebacking Local Chief Executives (LCE) of Regions 9, 10, and Caraga. Also, re-elected officials in Region 10 were also catered in the booth exhibit. This was held during the Cluster Newly Elected Officials (NEO) Orientation Course held last 3-4 August 2022, at Limketkai Luxe Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City.
Visiting local leaders were provided with reference and collateral materials on how the NEOs can navigate the nutrition program in their respective areas. Such advocacy focused on the 3Ns: Nutrition Committee, Nutrition Office, and Nutrition Action Plan.
Read more: NNC-NorMin lobbies nutrition to newly elected officials of R9, 10, Caraga
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8 August 2022, Cagayan de Oro City – Nutrition Program Coordinator Gladys Mae S. Fernandez of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) X pitched to re-elected Municipal Mayors, and newly-minted/comebacking Governors and City Mayors of Northern Mindanao the 3Ns as their guide to navigating the nutrition program. This happened during the Regional Newly-Elected Officials (NEO) Orientation Course last 3 August 2022 at Limketkai Luxe Hotel, this city, organized by the Department of the Interior and Local Government X.
NPC Fernandez emphasized that NNC’s call for 3Ns means: Nutrition Committee, Nutrition Office, and Nutrition Action Plan.
A three-year Local Nutrition Action Plan (LNAP) must be formulated, implemented, and monitored and evaluated by a functional Local Nutrition Committee (LNC) led by the LCE. The diversity of nutrition programs in the LNAP ranges from nutrition-specific, nutrition-sensitive and enabling programs. Therefore, a Nutrition Office with full staff complement is needed to ensure ample attention and coordination for each program. Lastly, NPC Fernandez provided a fourth N, which is the NNC, willing to assist the local government units.
Further introduced to the LCEs are the framework the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN), and the coordinating structure for nutrition, with emphasis of the Nutrition Committees at the local level.
Aside from NNC X, other regional line agencies were also invited to present their program frameworks to rally support from the re-elected LCEs. (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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2 August 2022, Cagayan de Oro City – The Misamis Occidental Province was validated by the National Evaluation Team (NET) last 25-27 July 2022 for its contention to the Nutrition Honor Award (NHA). The NHA is the most coveted award for nutrition awarded by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) to a local government unit (LGU).
The following were the NET members who facilitated the validation visit: Dr. Azucena M. Dayanghirang, Assistant Secretary and Executive Director IV of NNC, Ms. Racelline Faye D. Calangi, Nutrition Officer of NNC, and Ms. Belinda A. Lalap, Participative Nutrition Enhancement Approach Coordinator of the Barangay Integrated Development Approach for Nutrition Improvement (BIDANI) Network of University of the Philippines Los Baños.
Read more: MisOcc Province contends for highest award in nutrition
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3 August 2022, Cagayan de Oro City - The blended 2022 Nutrition Month Culmination was spearheaded by the National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region X on 29 July 2022 at The VIP Hotel, Cagayan de Oro City via Zoom and Facebook Live. This was participated by a total of 60 Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) member agencies, Local Government Unit (LGU) representatives, and media partners.
During the first part of the program, Dr. Ellenieta HMV N. Gamolo, Assistant Regional Director of the Department of Health Center for Health Development – Northern Mindanao, gave the opening remarks. ARD Gamolo invited everyone to expand multi-sectoral engagement to scale up nutrition interventions and strengthen leadership and governance in nutrition across all levels to achieve nutritional outcomes.
This was followed by the program highlight, where Ms. Czarina Pia F. Ong-Geroy, RND, MPSM, President of Nutritionist-Dietitians’ Association of the Philippines Cagayan de Oro-Misamis Oriental Chapter served as the webinar resource speaker. In her talk, she discussed healthy eating habits in the new normal. She highlighted the importance of how immune cells in the gut are directly influenced by an individual’s diet and lifestyle.
Read more: NNC R10 culminates 2022 NM campaign using blended platforms
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Diabetes is one of the global health problems we are facing today. In fact, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), the prevalence of diabetes worldwide has been increasing over the past decades (WHO, 2016). Likewise, one of the leading causes of death in the Philippines is diabetes, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority in 2020.
Diabetes is a chronic disorder that occurs when the pancreas does not produce insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar, or when the body cannot use the produced insulin properly. High blood sugar or hyperglycemia is the common effect of uncontrolled diabetes. Over time, hyperglycemia, if not managed, can damage various organs such as the kidney, heart, eyes, blood vessels, and nerves.
There are three types of diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is a hereditary condition wherein the immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-making cells in the pancreas. While type 2 diabetes, commonly known as diabetes mellitus (DM), is mainly lifestyle-related accounts for 95% among all the population with diabetes (WHO, 2021). The third one is gestational diabetes which occurs during pregnancy and disappears after birth. Women with gestational diabetes and their baby have a higher risk of complications during pregnancy and delivery.
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Food allergy is an immune system response of which its signs and symptoms manifest right away after eating food that triggers allergies.
Food allergies are now more common than ever before in history. Today, practically everyone has one or more food allergies. If not you, it's extremely probable that someone in your family or social group has it. Food allergy symptoms are most typically observed in newborns and young children, while they can develop at any age.
Some people may experience discomfort from an allergic reaction to a particular food, while others may suffer severe symptoms from a food allergy, including the possibly fatal anaphylactic reaction. Most food-related symptoms appear minutes after eating and disappear in two hours or less.
