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Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental – After the monthlong Nutrition Month activities and the Local MELLPI last July, the Municipal Nutrition Committee thru the Municipal Health Office of Santa Catalina conducted a 3-day BNS Basic Course training held on 17-19 August 2022 at Bahay Kubo Resort, Santa Catalina, Negros Oriental. Twenty-five (25) Nutrition Heroes of the municipality were trained with the goal to arrest the increasing number of wasted and stunted children in the municipality.
Read more: Santa Catalina upskills their BNS to help decrease malnutrition
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Samboan, Cebu – When it comes to breastfeeding, your baby will receive everything he or she needs for proper development from your breast milk. Good nutrition will help you increase your milk supply, gain energy, and lose baby weight. To stay healthy and maintain a high milk production, lactating mothers need to eat well. Protein, carbohydrates, and fats are all necessary nutrients for a nursing mother and her healthy baby. Your body needs to heal a lot after pregnancy and childbirth, Protein is required for tissue formation and repair, hormone regulation, and antibody formation to protect against infection. A high-protein diet will also help you produce enough breast milk for your child.
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Cebu City – The National Nutrition Council Region VII recently underscored nutrition and nutrition resiliency in one of its episodes of e-HISGOT or Educational Health and Nutrition Information-Sharing Geared Towards Development.
Nutrition is the science and process where the body sustains itself by processing food in which turns as the source of energy and other bodily processes that are important for daily living thus making nutrition important to every being. The food that we eat everyday contains nutrients which is divided into two groups: Micronutrients and Macronutrients. The body needs more Macronutrients to give energy and in turn give the exact number of antibodies to strengthen the immune system.
Read more: e-HISGOT highlights nutrition and nutrition resiliency
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Bindoy, Negros Oriental - Most people often joke to someone that she is pregnant when she’s eating unusual food combinations or a type of food that she normally doesn't like. And the funny thing is that they are somehow true! So how do cravings start and what’s the truth behind them during pregnancy?
For most women, cravings start in the first trimester, peak in the second trimester, and decline in the third trimester. Doctors say that appetite rarely persists after giving birth, so you won't eat the same weird thing forever.
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Cebu City - In the human body, our cells make up tissues then tissues make up organs and then organs make up organ systems. It is part of human nature that something whole consists of something little that makes it a whole. This little structures or units are vital in every way. This principle also applies to amino acids. Amino acids, also known as protein building blocks, are compounds that play a variety of important roles in your body.
These biomolecules are involved in a variety of biological and chemical functions in the human body and are required for human growth and development. There are approximately 300 amino acids that occur in nature. Amino acids are left over after proteins are digested or broken down. The human body uses amino acids to make proteins to help in the functions like:
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Cebu City - Clean, Separate, Cook, and Chill. These four simple rules from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) are steps that help protect us and our loved ones from food poisoning.
Step 1 – Clean. Wash your hands and surfaces often. Germs that cause food poisoning can survive in many places and spread around our kitchen. Therefore, we must always wash our hands, our cooking instruments, and most especially, our meats, fruits, and vegetables under running water.
