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Cebu City – Leptin and ghrelin are food hormones that greatly influence satiety and hunger. They play a crucial role in regulating our appetite, as well as the satiety feeling or feeling full. These food hormones are linked to why obesity happens, and closely associated with what happens is the person’s lack of sleep. Are you somebody who consistently lacks sleep?
Read more: The relationship between food hormones leptin and ghrelin
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Cebu City - Pregnancy is the period in which a fetus develops inside a woman's womb or uterus. This unique phase of a woman’s life usually lasts about 40 weeks, or just over 9 months, as measured from the last menstrual period to delivery.
Nutrition during pregnancy has critical implications for the child’s growth and development. Women in this stage should have a balanced and varied diet together with the right number of vitamins and minerals i.e., iron or ferrous sulfate, folic acid, and iodine to suffice the needs of the growing child inside the womb. She should avoid smoking or tobacco use as these have serious implications to her baby.
Read more: Impact of smoking and tobacco use during pregnancy
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Borbon, Cebu - Water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) are concerns associated with water supply, provision of sanitation, and washing facilities with hygiene education specifically promoted in schools. In every school with complete WASH facilities has a functional and reliable water system that provides safe and sufficient water for all needs like handwashing, drinking, and even toilet use.
Speaking of toilets, the WASH program also has a adequate number of toilets for teachers and students that is safe, clean, and separate for boys and girls. It is promoted in schools primarily to cater to the needs of the entire school population, including preschoolers, girls of menstruation age, children with disabilities, etc.
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Negros Oriental Province - The Municipal Nutrition Committee (MNC) of Tayasan through the RHU and DOH staff reoriented all their Barangay Health Workers and Barangay Nutrition Scholars on the different health and nutrition programs and their roles and functions for the sustainability of Buntis Wellness Project. The activity attended by 319 participants frontline health and nutrition workers was held on 31 May – 1 June 2022 at the Ike’s Kamalig of the said town. ND II Raya Faith Luce served as speaker for the nutrition program topic.
Read more: Tayasan, Negros Oriental sustains their Buntis Wellness Project
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Cebu Province - To be healthy, we've always been told to eat a variety of foods and avoid becoming fussy eaters since we were children. Why is it necessary to diversify our diets when we know that eating food groups like go grow and glow would keep us healthy?
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Borbon, Cebu - In March of 2020, as lockdowns put millions of people out of work and headline forecast on food shortage, many parents were apprehensive on where to source food for the family’s dining table. With people forced to cut off on social and even family gatherings, they are finding ways of something to engage to. Several individuals began engaging themselves into gardening. Hence, many became “plant titas and plant titos”. Seeds seedlings, and plants abound and sold out online. Others ventured out into gardening centers, searching online for the best plants they do not have. Some also realized the inner green thumb in them.
With the resiliency of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are taught about backyard gardening. But what are the benefits we can get from backyard or home gardening?
