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Cebu City - Muscle strength and boosting one’s endurance can be achieved through performing regular exercise. It is also one way to improve your overall health. Regular exercise can build endurance, resistance, balance, and flexibility. People exercise according to many reasons. This may be for recreation, for work, for competition, or for their appearance. According to one study, it is recommended to get at least 150 minutes for moderate aerobic activity and 75 minutes for vigorous aerobic activity. While in strength training, it is recommended to exercise at least two times a week.
Exercise following a training routine is now attainable and made easier due to internet access. However, the motivation to get regular exercise does not come every day especially to some. With the on-going pandemic where people are stuck in their houses 24/7, slouching in the couch and binged watching the favourite series are far easier than hitting the gym and using exercise equipment.
Read more: Habits for a Fit Life: Motivation during Exercise
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Cebu City – The challenge of eating well is doing it while on a budget. Eating a healthy diet is vital for mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing. Having healthy meals can make a huge difference to your mood, energy, and how active you can use your cognitive skills. Along with lack of time, having a limited budget is one of the major barriers to healthy eating as most healthy foods are somehow expensive. A sad reality is that most fast-food chains and junk foods are cheaper than fruits and other healthy foods. Additionally, when people lack time and wanted to opt for a quicker way to grab food, processed food, and fast food can seem like the best options in the situation.
According to one study, eating a healthy diet that is rich in fruits, vegetables, fish and nuts is more expensive than eating an unhealthy diet which mostly are processed foods and refined grains. Further, hyper-processed, sugary, salty, additive-laden food is so cheap.
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Sierra Bullones, Bohol – The implementation of the Barangay First 1,000 Days (BF1KD) Program which was started in the municipality in 2018 was expanded to all 22 barangays.
BF1KD is a program introduced in Siera Bullones by Helen Keller International with funding support from Nutrition International as a model to deliver health and nutrition services to pregnant women and children below 2 years old. Other municipalities with BF1KD Program are Buenavista, Calape, Carmen, Inabanga, Jagna, Trinidad, Tubigon, and Ubay.
Read more: Sierra Bullones expands its BF1KD implementation to all barangays
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Cebu City - The regional association of district, city, and municipal nutrition program coordinators in Central Visayas (NPCAR 7), Inc. will produce DocuNanay vlogs as its contribution to the regional Nutrition Month (NM) celebration. Now on its second year of initiating project in support of the NM focus, the association officers have decided to continue their D/C/MNPC vlogs anchored on this year’s theme “Malnutrisyon patuloy na labanan, First 1000 Days tutukan”.
DocuNanay is a vlog detailing nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive interventions for pregnant women to ensure that they receive optimum care and nutrition. The project hopes to raise the awareness of pregnant women of the key roles they are to play in ensuring good nutrition of their children in the critical 270 days of the First 1000 Days of life of their babies. Specifically, the project aims to portray the needed health and nutrition interventions during the period of pregnancy, call on pregnant women to avail of the services provided by nutrition specific and nutrition sensitive service providers, encourage these service providers to prioritize families with pregnant women and young children in their client list, and showcase the roles of district, city, and municipal nutrition program coordinators in delivering nutrition services for pregnant women.
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Cebu City - TikTok is one of the fastest growing and trending social media platform that enables users to film and share short videos. TikTok offers a unique way of conveying and consuming information thus helps reach its target viewers. TikTok is available in over 150 countries, has over 1 billion users and ranked as the most downloaded application in the entertainment category in the Philippines. According to research, 68 percent of TikTok users watch someone else’s video and 55 percent upload their own videos. With this, TikTok will help attract and engage our target audiences thus help us achieved our main goal of disseminating key nutrition messages in a creative way and help the audience to recall and apply the messages in their day to day lives.
This 2021 Nutrition Month celebration, the NNC 7 will explore using TikTok as a tool in sharing nutrition information to its netizens aside from its usual social media activities.
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Cebu City - In celebration of the 47th Nutrition Month, the Central Visayas Association of Nutrition Action Officers, Inc. (CeVANAO Inc.) will share complementary feeding tips online. Dubbed as Comple Nutri Tips, the project will maximize the use the social media platform in creating awareness on the whys and hows of proper complementary feeding. It will showcase nutrition action officers in short video clips sharing tips in the preparation and provision of complementary food to children 6-23 months old and promote the importance of timely, appropriate, safe and adequate (TASA) complementary feeding among mothers, family members, and caregivers.
Complementary feeding is a process when breastmilk alone is no longer sufficient to meet the nutritional requirements of infants, and therefore other foods and liquids are needed, along with breastmilk. This typically covers the period from 6-24 months of age, while continuing breastfeeding until 2 years of age and beyond. Complementary feeding is one of the critical interventions in the First 1000 Days. The first 1,000 days of life is considered as the “golden window of opportunity of a child’s life”. It is the time spanning roughly between conception and the child’s second birthday. This is a unique period of opportunity when the foundations of optimum health, growth, and neurodevelopment across the lifespan are established.
Read more: CeVANAO, Inc. to share complementary feeding tips online
