The National Nutrition Council (NNC) successfully completed the training on Website Management, and Effective Writing for the Web which was handled by the NNC Web Team led by Ms Jigay Gawe, OIC of the Nutrition Surveillance Division and, Mr. Jayson Pino Guevarra, respectively. The back-to-back trainings were intended to empower and prepare each NNC staff…

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The Philippine Information Agency will conduct an Information Officers’ Meeting at the DPWH Training Center, Engineers Hill, Baguio City on October 10, 2011. The meeting will be attended by the Information Officers of the different government agencies and local government units designated to do information work all over the region. This meeting aims to build…

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BAGUIO CITY- The 38th Nutrition Month celebration this July in the region kicked off with a vegetable planting activity on Monday, July 2, followed by a press forum in line with the theme “Pagkain ng Gulay Ugaliin, Araw-araw Itong Ihain”. Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator June Falancy said the vegetable planting activity was done at the…

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July 2, 2015- The Regional Nutrition Committee-CAR formally launched the 2015 Nutrition Month celebration through a Kapihan (press conference) held at PIA-CAR office, Baguio City. Panelists of the Kapihan namely Ms. Rita Papey (Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator, NNC-CAR), Dr. Virginia Narciso (Medical Officer IV, DOH-CAR), Ms. Pelin B. Belino (Dean, College of Home Economics and…

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BAGUIO CITY, June 18 (PIA) – The province of Benguet, the city of Baguio and the municipality of Alfonso Lista, Ifugao emerged as the best local government units implementing nutrition programs in the Cordillera region. During the recent meeting of the Regional Nutrition Committee, Bella Basalong of the National Nutrition Council (NNC) reported results of…

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Baguio City. The celebration of this year’s Nutrition Month with a theme “Timbang iwasto sa tamang nutrisyon at ehersisyo” is timely to intensify consciousness of the Cordillerans to be healthy by achieving desirable body weight according to the Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator (RNPC) of National Nutrition Council-CAR during the Regional Nutrition Committee during the 2nd…

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BAGUIO CITY – The multi-agency Regional Nutrition Evaluation Team (RNET) of the Cordillera office of the National Nutrition Council (NNC-CAR) uncovered that the city remains to have the lowest prevalence of underweight pre-school children at 1.48 percent compared to the 11.91 percent underweight pre-schoolchildren in Abra for the years 2014-2015. The RNET also reported to…

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The Cordillera’s nutritional status is better compared with other regions in the country. In the recent 5th nutrition summit which was attended by health advocates, nutrition workers and barangay officials, National Nutrition Council Regional Director Rita Papey said the nutrition status of children within 60 months are better compared with other regions. Older children however…

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7-9 July 2014—The National Nutrition Council-CAR (NNC-CAR) invited the two newly hired support staff of the Provincial Nutrition Committee of Abra for a nutrition program orientation held at the NNC-CAR Regional Office as one strategy of the Regional Nutrition Committee to focus technical assistance on areas in the region with high malnutrition rate and with…

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7-9 July 2014—The National Nutrition Council-CAR (NNC-CAR) invited the two newly hired support staff of the Provincial Nutrition Committee of Abra for a nutrition program orientation held at the NNC-CAR Regional Office as one strategy of the Regional Nutrition Committee to focus technical assistance on areas in the region with high malnutrition rate and with…

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