The inter-agency city nutrition committee (CNC) of Taguig led by its Chair, Mayor Maria Laarni L. Cayetano, believes that together they can significantly reduce, if not eliminate malnutrition in their city. With this mindset, they analyzed the causes of under and overnutrition among children and using the multi-sectoral approach, planned nutrition actions that will bring…

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Valenzuela City — In 2009, the prevalence rate of undernutrition among preschool children was at 4.15%.  Baseline school weighing of day care children revealed a 15.6% prevalence rate of undernutrition. These figures alarmed former Mayor and now Senator Sherwin T. Gatchalian.  He immediately instructed for the revitalization of the City Nutrition Committee (CNC). He believed…

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Persistence, Action, Service, Innovation and Good Governance best describe the Pasig City Nutrition Committee (CNC) chaired by former First Lady and City Mayor of Pasig from 2013-2016, Honorable Maria Belen A. Eusebio.  During her term, Mayor Maribel made nutrition a priority program of her administration. Mayor Maribel has always envisioned Pasigueños to be empowered, educated,…

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The Association of Nutrition Action Officers of NCR (ANAO-NCR, Inc.) has a new set of officers led by President-elect CNAO Dr. Benjamin M. Yson of the City of Manila. The election was held during the ANAO-NCR’s regular meeting held on August 16, 2016 at the New Horizon Hotel in Mandaluyong City. The new set of…

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Ms. Rhea S. Benoy, married and blessed with one child, has been working in the community for the last fifteen (15) years. She started as a Barangay Health Worker (BHW). In 2008, her nutrition supervisor who is a nutritionist-dietitian highly recommended her to be the Barangay Nutrition Scholar (BNS) in Barangay Kapitolyo because of her…

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Ms. Teresita Madrona Patino, one of the pioneer Barangay Nutrition Scholars of the San City since 1978, is the City’s Outstanding BNS for 2015. The year 2015 was really a turning point in her career as the new Barangay Nutrition Scholar at Barangay Pasadena replacing the retired BNS Ms. Luz Alipao. Honed through the years…

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Saloma Zamora has been the Barangay Nutrition Scholar of Barangay Mabini J. Rizal in Mandaluyong City for 17 years now. She could have been a Nutritionist-Dietitian, taking a course in nutrition then at the Philippine Normal College but because of financial difficulties and being a self-supporting student, aside from having a weak body, she finished…

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The National Nutrition Council – National Capital Region (NNC-NCR) of the Department of Health recognized top performing LGUs and Outstanding Barangay Nutrition Scholars (OBNSs) with exemplary performance in nutrition program management and delivery of nutrition services during the Regional Nutrition Awarding Ceremony (RNAC) held on 28 July 2016 at the Heritage Hotel, Pasay City. The…

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The National Nutrition Council-National Capital Region (NNC-NCR) together with the 17 local government units (LGU) in NCR recently conducted simultaneous activity to promote the importance of good nutrition in the First 1000 days among pregnant, lactating women and mothers of children 0-2 years old, held in celebration of the Nutrition Month this July. Participated in…

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The Batang 1000 is a joint project of Quezon City Health Department (QCHD) and UNILAB Philippines. It aims to reduce the prevalence of stunting in Quezon City by 2017. Based on the 2015 Operation Timbang Plus conducted by the health and nutrition workers in 142 barangay of the city revealed that more than 12,000 preschool…

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