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Cebu City - The National Nutrition Council Region VII conducted a writing workshop to sharpen the writing skills of its technical staff and the Human Resource for Health for Nutrition (HRH-N) under its wing. The writeshop dubbed “How to write an effective article” was held on 08 December 2021 at the Southview Hotel in Dumaguete City and was attended by twenty-nine participants. The activity was part of the capacity building activities organized by NNC 7 for its personnel.
Nutrition Officer II Ms. Norre Jean V. Delos Santos of NNC 7 was the main speaker and facilitator. She emphasized that “Writing articles brings out important and relevant topics to limelight like correcting the common belief that stunting is hereditary”. She added that other themes such as good nutrition projects, relevant policies approved and implemented in the different LGUs can also be featured in the article. The workshop covered topics on Appreciating Web Articles, News Article vs. Feature Story, Fundamentals of News Writing and Scaling-up Digital Presence. It was capped with an actual writeshop where each attendee was expected to produce either a news article, feature story or news feature. Best articles from the different categories were selected after the activity.
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Cebu City—The Christmas season is here! A lot of exciting things are coming, that includes multiple invitation for Christmas parties. Many dishes are prepared during Christmas dinner from small pica picas, to lechon, to the family’s favorite dessert. Staying fit and healthy during this season is a challenge. Sticking to your usual diet will be tested during this holiday season. Mentioned in this article are some tips for you!
Tip #1 Don’t overeat
Delicious meals are served at the table like hamon, quezo de bola, pancit guisado, lechon and many more. Make sure that you know when to stop eating and know your limit. As much as possible try to eat a balance diet. Follow the Pinggang Pinoy and eat a variety of food.
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Cebu City – There is no doubt that the Christmas holiday is right around the corner. And it’s almost certain that the Christmas holiday means more food, or rather lots of good, delicious, and tempting food. And it’s super easy to overindulge yourself to all those meals and treats but despite all that, it’s never impossible to have more healthier choices this Christmas season. Having more healthier choices doesn’t necessarily mean giving up the spirit of consuming delicious meals this Yuletide season, but it shouldn’t also mean you should also compromise your own health.
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Cebu City—Breakfast as we all know is the most important meal of the day. It is a way to reenergize the body from all the ‘fasting’ it went while you were sleeping. Most of the times people tend to skip eating breakfast due to a lot of reasons. One of which would be that there is no more time to prepare the meal or time to sit down and eat because the preparation for going to work or school takes most of the time. Another reason would be that people think that skipping meals makes them lose weight, therefore they tend to do ‘brunch’ meals which is the combination of breakfast and lunch. But doing so does the opposite of what they intent to do.
Eating a hearty and delicious breakfast is a great way to start the day. Here are a few quick and easy recipes to prepare for breakfast whether it’s for yourself or for the whole family.
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Cebu City—The meals given to patients in the hospital is said to be not appetizing at all. Well, there is a reason behind that. Meals given to patients in the hospital may differ depending in their health conditions, so here are some of the common meals given to patients in the hospital for better understanding.
- Full diet/ FTC
A full diet is given to patients with no abnormalities in their blood profile, urinalysis, normal function of the digestive system, or no severe health conditions. The meal given has no restriction at all like salt or sugar limitation, it is served in the right and proper amount.
- Hypoallergenic diet
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Cebu City – One of the many ways of ensuring a healthy meal is to introduce a wide selection of food especially with fruits and vegetables. With a variety of food choices, it is almost certain that you will get an array of colorful food. And it will always guarantee that the more colorful your food is the healthier it is. The term “eating the rainbow” refers to eating a variety of food in relation to the color of the rainbow. And each color has its own benefits & advantages.
Red – Due to lycopene, eating red colored fruits and vegetables has its own health benefits like being anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, reduce risk of heart disease, and helps protect the skin.
Orange & Yellow – Due to the chemical component of cryptothanxin, it helps with proper function, growth, and communication of our cells. It also keeps our skin and eyes healthy.
