The National Nutrition Council – NCR (NNC-NCR) tapped businesses and private sectors to invest in nutrition during the regional SUN Business Network Organizational Meeting attended by 12 participants from nine (9) companies held virtually on April 21, 2022.The meeting was presided by NNC-NCR Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator (RNPC) Ms. Milagros Elisa Federizo. During the meeting,…

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A total of 18 universities and colleges located in different LGUs in Metro Manila joined the Regional SUN Academe Network in an online meeting held on April 19, 2022. The network will elevate the role of academe in driving the evidence base, strengthen research capacity, prioritize implementation of science and research, and leverage their academic…

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Navotas City Nutrition Committee held a culminating activity on March 15, 2022, for the sixty-four (64) pregnant beneficiaries to mark the end of the 90-day food supplementation provided by the National Nutrition Council’s Tutok Kainan Dietary Supplementation Program (TK-DSP).TK-DSP is the NNC’s COVID-19 response that aims to fight malnutrition and prevent stunting in the first…

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A total of 21 civil society organizations (CSOs) pledged their commitment to become members of the SUN Civil Society Network (CSN) in the National Capital Region during the advocacy and organizational meeting held on April 5, 2022, via Zoom.The Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement is a renewed effort to eliminate all forms of malnutrition, based…

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According to World Health Organization (WHO), there are more than 12 million deaths worldwide every year because of avoidable environmental causes. These include air pollution, extreme weather events, poor sanitation, and food and waterborne diseases among others. Collectively, they are considered a climate crisis that affects people’s health and sometimes causes death.Climate change also causes…

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Join NNC-NCR as we begin “Board Hunt” to learn more about the roles and functions of the NNC Governing Board (GB).We learned about the NNC, the NNC GB, and the secretariat in our previous article. To read more on that, here’s the link to the article: https://www.nnc.gov.ph/regional-offices/luzon/national-capital-region/7202-be-one-of-the-spoons-national-nutrition-council-s-call-for-nutrition-improvement .Now we will learn more about the NNC…

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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. It is a celebration where thousands of patients, survivors, caregivers, advocates, and volunteers join to share their stories and spread awareness on the prevention of colorectal cancer and the importance of early detection. This offers healthcare providers who care for patients with diseases of the colon and rectum a…

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  29 March 2022 –Thirty-six (36) participants composed of 4 Nutrition Action Officers, 17 Local Nutrition Program Coordinators, and 15 members of the Regional Nutrition Committee (RNC) and Regional Nutrition Management Group (RNMG) gathered in an online workshop to review the RNC Resolution No. 3 Series of 2018 “Enjoining LGUs to Implement Local Initiatives for…

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The National Nutrition Council – NCR’s Webinar Series on Nutrition: Year 2 will focus its  episodes for 2022 on the National Nutrition Council (NNC) and the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN).The webinar series dubbed as “NutriSerye: Usapang nutrisyon, atbp.” was launched in 2021 as a strategy to reach out to more people and…

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The National Nutrition Council – NCR (NNC-NCR) reorganized the Regional Nutrition Writers’ Guild through an online meeting held on March 17, 2022.Thirty-three (33) nutritionist-dietitians (NDs) from the 16 cities and one (1) municipality in Metro Manila attended the meeting presided by NNC-NCR Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Milagros Elisa Federizo.Participants were also capacitated in writing articles…

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