Region VII

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 28 February 2017

Siquijor BNSs receive their very first honorarium Siquijor Province – Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs) of the Province of Siquijor rejoiced as they were finally given honorarium by the Provincial government. The financial support was released by the Accounting Office on 08 February 2017.

All 134 BNSs of the six municipalities of the province received the first half of their honorarium for the previous year, as the provincial nutrition committee thru its PNAO Dr. Josefina S. Bucol and DNPC Helen S. Jimenez have already complied with all the requirements for the release of funds.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 15 February 2017

V day special Valentine's Day is a great time to celebrate love and can be a reminder to make healthy choices as part of your everyday life. Your sweetheart may have the key to your heart, but eating healthy and being physically active can be the key to a healthier heart. Whether you celebrate Valentine's Day on your own or with someone else, take steps to celebrate a healthy valentine.

Taking a long, romantic walk with your beloved is a good way in celebrating valentine’s day. You will be able to talk about many things together while walking and able to exercise yourselves. Try to make it a regular habit. Taking a regular walk can help lower the blood sugar level and boost energy as well. Thus, making it an advantage for both of you being physically healthy and your bonding moment as a couple.

Valentine’s Day is not just for lovers, it is a celebration time for families in general. Hence, lots of activities could be done. Picnic could be fun for children. Games would make an enjoyable bond such as Scavenger Hunt wherein hidden notes are kept around the house and the children should look for it. They need to find the other notes and guess the written riddles in it, thus exercise their thinking skills and physical strengths.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 31 January 2017

Cebu City – National Nutrition Council Region VII releases the 2016 Operation Timbang (OPT) Plus results with a 0.31% decrease in the prevalence of underweight-for-age in the region from 4.91% to 4.6%. The same report also shows a decrease in the stunting prevalence from 13.88% in 2015 to 12.64% in 2016.

There was a significant decline too in the four provinces in Central Visayas. Bohol province from 4.33% to 3.97%, Cebu province from 7.28% to 6.21%, Negros Oriental province from 6.95% to 5.84%, and Siquijor province with 4.46% from 5.31%.

Read more: CV MalRate declines in 2016

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 15 February 2017

Cebu City – As the Operation Timbang Plus activities for 2017 rapidly comes to an end, the Regional Nutrition Committees of Central Visayas have doubled up efforts in mentoring LGUs on the use of the new eOPT tool to help facilitate data processing and analysis.

From mentoring activities to conduct of workshops, the provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Negros Oriental and Siquijor have been enthusiastic in the application of the eOPT tool. This helps process raw data gathered during the local Operation Timbang Plus activities and translating the data into information that can be used by the local nutrition committees in planning.

The provinces have made efforts in meeting up with their local nutrition workers to provide technical assistance through hands on mentoring on the use of the eOPT tool as strategized by the provinces of Bohol, Negros Oriental and Siquijor, or have invested on workshops/trainings on its usage such as the strategy done by Cebu Province.

The eOPT was published by the National Nutrition Council early this month. This is a new version of the BNS Tool and the OPT database tool used a few years ago and its publication is well anticipated by LGUs who have already started encoding master lists since the middle of 2016.

“It will indeed make our work lighter” a barangay worker who have been monitoring updates on the regional webpage stated referring to the new eOPT tool.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 15 January 2017

“There is no healthy nation without a healthy citizen”, a heartfelt quotation from the Chairman of Bohol Provincial Nutrition Committee and Governor Hon. Edgar M. Chatto during his inspirational message in the 2016 Bohol Provincial Nutrition Awarding Ceremony on 29 December 2016 at JJ’s Seafood Village, Tagbilaran City, Bohol.

The half-day event gave recognition to the different outstanding performers in the province in their efforts in the nutrition program implementation in their respective LGUs. The activity was attended by members of the Provincial Nutrition Committee, Provincial Nutritionist-Dietitians, awardees and guests from different municipalities of Bohol province.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 31 January 2017

Cebu Province – “Daghan kaayong salamat! Naa na gyud mi’y height board. Di nako manghuwam sa pikas barangay” (Thank you very much! We already have height board. I will no longer borrow from the other barangay) said BNS Nanay Veneranda of Asturias, Cebu after receiving a height board for her barangay.

The Cebu Provincial Nutrition Council (CPNC) distributed 100 height boards to 100 barangays in eleven selected municipalities in the province on 23-25 January 2017.