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The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) as the country’s blueprint of actions for nutrition improvement is now set in motion as the National Nutrition Council (NNC), together with key national and local stakeholders, launched PPAN 2017-2022 in Iloilo City.
Health Secretary and NNC Governing Board Chair Paulyn Jean B. Rosell-Ubial led the launching along with Assistant Secretary of Health and NNC Executive Director Maria-Bernardita T. Flores who presented PPAN and turned it over to the country’s 38 priority areas.
Iloilo province is one of the 38 priority areas of PPAN identified because of the large numbers of stunted children, Ubial said.
The PPAN launching was aimed at presenting to stakeholders involved in its implementation targets for various forms of malnutrition and the corresponding programs needed to address these.
Read more: Plan of Action for Nutrition seeks to address ‘Stunting’
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Nutrition is an investment of a child’s future. Malnutrition among children will contribute to their academic performances. “The fight to eradicate malnutrition is a continuous battle. Gains may be hard to win but this is one challenge that we can and must overcome”, the opening statement of Mayor Joseph Evangelista.
The City Nutrition Committee of Kidapawan City holds its first Nutrition Summit last April 10, 2017 with the theme, “Making Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time -bound Commitments from Promise to Impact: A Move toward Improving Nutrition” held at Kidapawan City Gymnasium. It was attended by about 200 participants which include Barangay Officials, Midwives, Barangay Health Workers, Barangay Nutrition Scholars, and different stakeholders in the city.
The summit aimed to set plan of action geared towards reducing malnutrition problem of the city affecting the most vulnerable and unprivileged population. As the Keynote Speaker, Mayor Joseph A. Evangelista emphasized that the fight against malnutrition is one of the major issues that needs to be addressed. Thus, it needs a consolidated effort and active involvement from the different sectors/stakeholders, especially the community. Mayor Evangelista shared to everyone that regular nutrition program of the city such as Supplementary Feeding will continue and the “Gulayan sa Barangay” will be sustained and intensified to help support the different feeding program.
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KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, (PIA) -- Households in urban areas like Koronadal City can still establish vegetable gardens for family consumption, an official of the city government here emphasized.
“In places like subdivisions and apartments where spaces are limited households may opt to put up hanging gardens or use flower pots, sacks, grocery bags, and other containers to raise assorted vegetables,” City Nutrition Action Officer Veronica Daut said. “This way, families could still have ready supply of vegetables despite the lack of the traditional backyards.”
On February 28, Koronadal’s City Nutrition Office in partnership with the Household Gardeners’ Club and the National Nutrition Council 12 gathered residents from the 27 barangays here for a convention at the Rizal Park where different fresh vegetables and vegetable-based cuisine where on display in stalls.
Barangay delegations also competed in display, pinakbet cooking, singing and dancing all centered on vegetables.
“Through events like this we promote organic vegetable gardening that ensures food security in every home and addresses malnutrition and hunger,” Daut said.
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Summer heat causes drawbacks that may seriously upset our body. Keeping our body cool from the high temperature is important to maintain internal stability of our body and avoid exhaustion. On top of that, it is important that we should load our diet with naturally healthy foods to survive from the sizzling temperature instead of consuming endless menu of high-fat and high-calorie foods. Now, here are some fruits and vegetables that we can enjoy in beating the scorching heat:
1. Cucumber: A member of the squash family, cucumber’s high water content makes it a refreshing (and hydrating) addition to summer menus. Although comprised primarily of water, cucumber is also a good source of vitamin C and silica, which is important for connective tissue health and also does wonders for the skin (either when ingested or applied topically to reduce swelling or redness). In addition, the skin of the cucumber is a great source of fiber, potassium and magnesium. When selecting a cucumber, look for slender cucumbers (which are a sign of their tender age) and those with dark green, firm skins. Cucumbers can be added raw to salads, sandwiches, soups or dips and are most flavorful when paired with chives, dill, mint and salt and vinegar.1
2. Bottle Gourd (Upo): It consists of approximately 96% of water and is therefore a great thirst quencher. It also prevents fatigue and keeps the body cool and refreshed during summers.2
Read more: 10 naturally cooling foods that will beat the summer heat
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The Regional Nutrition Committee and Regional Nutrition Cluster hammered down the nutrition activities set for 2017 last March 16, 2017 held at The Farm @ Carpenter Hill, Koronadal City. With 18 representatives from various agencies and organizations (Save the Children, DA, DOH, DepEd, NEDA, DENR, DSWD, DTI, NCIP, NFA, DOST, DOLE and Samaritan’s Purse), the meeting was presided by DOH XII OIC-Regional Director & chair of the Regional Nutrition Committee Dr. Francisco V. Mateo.
The members had set off 2017 plans with matters discussed scoping the 2016 OPT Plus Results, Status of the 2016 RNC Accomplishment Plan, Overview on the Formulation of 2017-2022 Regional Plan of Action for Nutrition (RPAN), Presentation of Programs and Projects of Samaritan’s Purse, Updates of Programs and Projects of Save the Children, RNC/RDC Policy review, Breastfeeding in the workplace and 2017 Nutrition Month Theme.
Presentation of the 2016 Regional Nutrition Situation hurled various emotions from the members which made them all wanting to thrive more in mustering effective programs that can be very beneficial in reducing malnutrition in the region.
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SOCCSKSARGEN’s Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team is all set for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Local Level Plan Implementation or MELLPI and the Search for Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) in the region which had already started last 06 April 2016.
The evaluation team is composed of focal persons coming from different government agencies such as DSWD (as the Chair), DOH, DA, DepEd, NEDA, PopCom, DILG, Save the Children and NNC XII.
MELLPI aims to assess the efficiency and effectiveness of local governments in planning and implementing local nutrition programs as part of NNC’s mandate as stated in the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN). The nutrition evaluators will also measure changes in weight status of preschool and school children during the evaluation year (2016) and the immediate past two years and validate thru weighing comprising at least 10% of the total Preschool population of the randomly selected barangays.
