Region VII

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 11 July 2022

Cebu City – The Orange Plate of Pinggang Pinoy represents the recommended Filipino Food Plate for Kids. The orange color generates energy, vitality, cheer, excitement, warmth, and adventure. Orange color also stimulates appetite and is a bright color that children are drawn into.

The Pinggang Pinoy aims to help parents in choosing the right kind and amount of food for their children. Ensuring that their children consume the important food groups that are beneficial to their child’s overall nutrition. Nowadays, parents are also busy with work but do not want to compromise the health of their children. The orange plate of Pinggang Pinoy is a great help in planning meal menus easily.

Here are some tips on how to fill up your child’s plate:

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 09 July 2022

Cebu City - Ms. Nancy Cudis-Ucag of Memoriter Writing Services and VP for Social Media of the Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development 7 (MIND 7) shared the 48^th Nutrition Month (NM) social media campaign in Central Visayas. This was one of the highlights of the regional launch of the 2022 NM in Central Visayas held on 01 July 2022 at SM City Consolacion, Cebu. The Nutrition Month social media campaign aims to be loud and available to audiences across the board by using social media.

MIND 7 is the official media network for nutrition in Central Visayas. This is composed of media practitioners (television, radio, print and the internet) from the commercial media in the region to help promote, and sustain efforts for nutrition advocacy and promotion in Central Visayas. MIND 7 was organized on 17 November 2010 with former DYLA Station Manager Mr. Jun P. Tagalog as its charter president. At present, Ms. Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon, the senior reporter of The Freeman serves as its president.

Ms. Ucag explained that as social media continues to grow as a form of communication and entertainment, it undeniably influences society. She added that social media has become a great venue especially for NNC Region VII to disseminate information particularly on nutrition.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 10 July 2022

Cebu City - A pledge resembles a promise, an oath, duty, and responsibility and this is the same with the 48^th Nutrition Month Pledge of National Nutrition Council Region VII. The pledge was first recited during the nutrition month celebration kick-off held at SM City Consolacion, Cebu on 01 July 2022. LGOO II and Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) – Technical Working Group Member, Ms. Aileen Grace A. Peca of the Department of the Interior and Local Government Region VII led this year’s annual tradition of reciting the nutrition month pledge. The assignment of narrating the pledge is rotated among RNC member agencies and drawn when the team prepares the Nutrition Month celebration during its first-quarter meetings.

Every year, NNC 7 comes up with a pledge to generate commitment and support for nutrition and its efforts to improve the nutrition situation in the region. The content of the pledge is usually aligned with the focus of the celebration. The pledge will be recited by the members of the RNC, students in schools or universities, and employees of local government units during the Monday program after the flag ceremony for the whole month of July, a long-time tradition in the region every Nutrition Month. Download the NM Pledge here.

The 48^th Nutrition Month Pledge of commitment 2022 centered on recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and states that

“We, representing the (Name of company/organization/agency) and citizens of the Republic of the Philippines do hereby declare our love of the country and uphold the right of every Filipino to have access to healthy and nutritious food as the country shifts towards living with the COVID-19 virus.

Together, we do solemnly swear to:

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 09 July 2022

Negros Oriental - Vegetables are high in key vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants, all of which supply your body with numerous health benefits. Your meal will not be complete without your vegetables. There are numerous reasons why someone may want to live a vegan lifestyle for reasons of morality, the environment, or health. But what will happen if you go Vegan? How can it impact your health?

A vegan diet comprises solely of plants and foods manufactured from plants (such as vegetables, grains, nuts, and fruits). Vegans avoid dairy and eggs since they come from animals. A diet like this have been linked to a lower risk of heart disease.

Preventing premature death and noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), vegan diets have also been linked to a slew of other health advantages such as lower risk of cancers, arthritis, poor kidney function, and developing Alzheimer’s disease. It can also aid weight loss if that is your objective.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 08 July 2022

Consolacion, Cebu – The National Nutrition Council Region VII with the Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development 7 (MIND 7) launched the Idol ko si Nanay (IKSN) Nutrition School On Air (NSOA) Season 2 on 01 July 2022 at SM City Consolacion in time of the regional launching of the 48^th Nutrition Month celebration in Central Visayas.

Ms. Mitchelle L. Palaubsanon, JD, Senior Reporter of The Freeman and the President of MIND 7 presented the background of the program and introduced the 50 official enrollees of IKSN.

IKSN is a learning module developed by National Nutrition Council to strengthen the holistic community-based intervention through nutrition education and promotion for behavior change. This is a group of learning sessions that will serve as a companion intervention to improve and enhance the knowledge and practices of mothers and caregivers on nutrition and early development services in the first 1000 days that can be used in their day to day lives.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 10 July 2022

Siquijor Province - According to the World Health Organization, undernutrition has been a serious condition in the Philippines for decades. It costs the Philippine economy US$ 4.4 billion or 1.5% of GDP every year. The global and social-economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic has made things worse causing food insecurity to rise sharply to the highest level due to high market prices, affordability of nutritious food affecting poverty.

The burden of malnutrition is a major barrier to development which highlights the underlying basic causes in which food often the first issue that comes to mind when addressing nutrition. Poor feeding practices of infants and young children due to lack of knowledge, unavailability, or unaffordability of nutritious food are factors contributing to malnutrition. Frequent childhood illness due to limited access of preventive and curative health services and insufficient access to health, sanitation and clean water services and poor access to safe water will also contribute to malnutrition.

We need to act now to protect many children as possible from the long-term impacts of chronic malnutrition. The Philippines can bring malnutrition levels down through a strong commitment to build closely by coordinating partnerships between national and local government units and provide the level of financing to implement large scale nutrition interventions and address the multifaceted causes of undernutrition.

To reduce malnutrition, we need to invest and integrate nutrition-sensitive programs. This has a huge impact to embed nutrition related issues and requires a systemic and holistic approach ensuring improvements in planning, implementation, and evaluation of our development work. Agriculture and food security, education, and social welfare programs, are nutrition-sensitive interventions implemented by these sectors complementary to nutrition specific programs. These interventions are tweaked in its design to deliver effective nutrition outcomes.

Here are key approaches to make nutrition sensitive programs potentially effective.