Cebu City – Central Visayas rips bad nutrition habits, literally, as a pledge of commitment to join the National Nutrition Council VII in a health war against over nutrition which has, in the past few years have slowly but steadily gained footing in the region’s nutritional landscape.

NNC 7 and its stakeholders, having gained insight in this growing threat, has come up with a strategy to deflate the problem and that is to raise awareness of over nutrition as a form of malnutrition as well as its side effect, to let the community identify their own leading cause of over nutrition and for them to commit to do something about.

Such commitment was secured by the ripping of hundreds of bad habits by different members of the community during the 2015 Nutrition Month Celebration Launching Programme held 01 July 2015 at the SM City Cebu Event Center in Cebu City. This was followed by the reciting of NNC 7’s 2015 NM Pledge to exercise “CONTROL” an acronym for activities that one could do in order to support the battle against over nutrition.

Along with the simultaneous ripping of bad nutrition habits, NPC Dr.Parolita A. Mission and the program’s special guests also did a ceremonial peeling off of the “bad” habits to make way for a healthier person on stage.

The NM Pledge and the ripping of bad habits was part II of NNC 7’s three-part Nutrition Month Launching activities. NNC 7 also encourages other agencies and local nutrition committees to recite the pledge and use the prayer during their weekly flag raising ceremony and encourage the public practice healthy lifestyle. //NGS