Region VII

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 27 June 2022

febanusa 2nd meeting

Cebu City – The Federation of Barangay Nutrition Scholars Association of Region 7 Inc., the regional federation of provincial and city BNS associations in Central Visayas will showcase their roles and responsibilities in the new normal through Tiktok/Reel/Short video. This was one of the agreements reached by the BNS presidents during their meeting held 21 June 2022 done via virtual setting.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 26 June 2022

Sikatuna Bohol

Bohol Province - Aside from the periodic conduct of Pabasa sa Nutrisyon and Idol Ko Si Nanay, it has long been a practice of the Municipal Health Office of Sikatuna, Bohol to orient first-time pregnant women and lactating mothers on the basic lessons on motherhood through the conduct of one-day mother’s class. For this year, the activity attended by 26 mothers held on 24 March 2022 at the RHU in Sikatuna, Bohol.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 25 June 2022

PPAN

Siquijor Province - The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) is the structural framework of the government to address the high malnutrition rate of the country. It is a result-based policy outline for nutrition programs and interventions which comprises of eight (8) nutrition specific, ten (10) nutrition sensitive programs and three enabling interventions. PPAN comes with a budget and has a monitoring and evaluation scheme to account the development in the implementation of the programs.

What is nutrition specific programs? Nutrition specific programs are program strategies to produce direct nutritional results. It addresses the immediate causes of maternal and child malnutrition such as micronutrient deficiency, underweight, stunting, wasting and obesity. Nutrition specific program is stimulated on the WHO Essential Nutrition Actions and pre-existing programs and the recommendations of Lancet Maternal and Child Nutrition Series.

What covers the nutrition specific programs? The PPAN comprises of eight (8) nutrition specific programs. These programs are the following:

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 26 June 2022

Counting Calories

Cebu City – It’s a fact that everyone who exceeds the normal BMI wants to lose weight. Everyone wants to look fit, healthy, and even sexy. It’s a common misconception that a specific type of food is to blame for their weight gain, resulting to the wrong belief and misinformation about what a certain type of food will do. When in fact counting calories is the way to go and is a means to eliminate those common food misconceptions.

First let’s tackle what are calories. Calories are a measure of energy in the body that can be used to measure the amount of energy in food. The unfortunate fact is that any excess calories consumed by an individual will be stored as fat. Hence the premonition of unnecessary weight gain. Consistently eating more than you lose will surely and certainly cause weight gain over time.

Counting calories can:

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 24 June 2022

Larena nutrition heroes

Siquijor Province - The Larena Local Government Unit of Siquijor Province conducted an LGU-funded Barangay Nutrition Scholar refresher course on 25 April 2022. The training was a response to one of the recommendations of the Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) during the recently concluded 2022 MELLPI Pro of the municipality.

Details: Category: Region 7; Published: 25 June 2022

Candulao BNC

Garcia Hernandez, Bohol – Evaluation is always being feared of by many. Several people shy away from evaluation as most often we don’t want to be judged. But not for the Barangay Nutrition Committee of Candulao, a small agricultural barangay in Garcia Hernandez, Bohol.

This happened when Garcia Hernandez was visited by Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) on 01 June 2022 as one of the municipalities randomly chosen by the team as sample municipalities for the MELLPI Pro of Bohol province. As a practiced by the Central Visayas RNET and in compliance to an RNC Resolution expanding the reach of MELLPI Pro for technical assistance, the team also evaluated three randomly selected barangays.