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Cebu City - As part of the Nutrition Month celebration, the Department of Health Central Visayas Center for Health Development together with NNC 7 held a Nutrition Caravan for the DOH employees. The event which offered various health assessment from the knowing one’s Body Mass Index (BMI) and fat percentage to knowing one’s cholesterol level, uric acid level, blood pressure, and blood type. The activity was held on 27 July 2022 at the Narra Conference Room of the agency.
Nutrition counseling was also offered among the participants by the volunteer interns of Bachelor of Science in Nutrition & Dietetics in the University of San Carlos headed by their faculty in charge. Alongside with them were the registered Nutritionist-Dietitian of NNC 7 and DOH CV CHD.
Read more: NNC 7 co-organizes Nutrition Caravan for DOH CVCHD employees
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Malabuyoc, Cebu – The Municipal Nutrition Committee of Malabuyoc concluded their 48th Nutrition Month celebration with a Nutri-Tabo Display Contest in Barngay Cerdena. This was held on 27 July 2022 at the covered court of the said barangay. It was attended by about 100 participants. Aligned with this year’s campaign theme “New Normal na Nutrisyon, Sama-samang Gawan ng Solusyon”, the activity was aimed to create awareness of the importance of proper nutrition in achieving a healthy community. Nutri-Tabo was also organized to encourage the community to have their own backyard garden to produce their own foods and have food-secure families especially during this pandemic. There was also a cooking contest to help mothers create more ideas of cooking cheap but nutritious recipe to provide their family with healthy dishes.
Read more: Malabuyoc concludes their 48th Nutrition Month observance
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Negros Province - Calcium, is a very familiar and popular mineral to everybody. The mineral that makes up the bulk of the body's composition and is essential for the development of both bones and teeth. Additionally, calcium is essential for numerous bodily metabolic processes. For sustaining ideal nerve transmission and controlling the functions of the heart muscle, adequate calcium intake is crucial.
Calcium is obtained by the body in two different ways. One method involves consuming calcium-rich foods (milk, cheese, yogurt, tofu, soya milk, soybeans, spinach, broccoli, and Chinese cabbage) or supplements, while the other involves using calcium that the body already contains. The body will remove calcium from bones if there is not a sufficient intake of foods containing calcium. The ideal scenario is that the calcium that is "borrowed" from the bones will be replaced later. However, this is not always the case and it is not always possible to do this by just consuming additional calcium. People require vitamin D in addition to calcium because it aids in calcium absorption. Fish oil, fortified dairy products, and sun exposure are sources of vitamin D.
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La Libertad, Negros Oriental - The term "skin-to-skin contact" typically refers to the practice of drying the newborn and placing him or her on the mother's bare chest following delivery. Both mother and child are then covered with a warm blanket and left for at least an hour or until the infant has had his or her first feed. Additionally, skin-to-skin contact can be made whenever a baby needs soothing or comfort and if there is a need to increase the mother's milk production. Skin-to-skin contact is also referred to as "kangaroo care”, known to improve physical and developmental results for the newborn while fostering parent-child relationship. It also promotes women in starting nursing and forming a close, loving bond with her infant while also assisting babies in adjusting to life outside the womb.
An increasing amount of research shows that having skin-to-skin contact with newborns and their moms is beneficial. The practice provides such benefits including:
Read more: The benefits of early skin to skin contact after delivery
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Negros Oriental – Wastes and excess fluid are removed from your body by your kidneys. It also eliminates acid that is created by your body's cells and keep the levels of water, salts, and minerals in your blood—such as sodium, calcium, phosphorus, and potassium—in a healthy range. But what happens when you only have one kidney? Solitary kidney means a condition in which a person has only one kidney instead of two. There are different causes that a person can have only one kidney such as birth defects, kidney being removed because of cancer or other diseases, and kidney donation to be transplanted to another person whose kidneys have failed.
Read more: Nutrition considerations for people with solitary kidney
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Cebu City - The year 2022 marks the resumption of the face-to-face monitoring of the Regional Nutrition Committee of its Urban Gardening Project located at Sitio Mahayahay, Barangay Apas, Cebu City. This urban garden was launched in 2016 as a project of the Regional Nutrition Council to showcase a nutrition-sensitive intervention. As the pandemic hit in 2020 and gatherings have been prohibited, the garden was left unmonitored.
Now with restrictions easing and holding of in-person meetings permitted while observing the safety protocols, the RNC–TWG members are back on their feet’s again as they visited Sitio Mahayahay on 28 July 2022, to take a closer look of the urban garden.
