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NNC R-VI preps Nutrition Officers for SMART Survey
10 February 2014, Iloilo City-The National Nutrition Council (NNC) Region VI conducts a briefing on SMART (Standardized Monitoring and Assessment of Relief and Transitions) Survey for all Provincial Nutrition Action Officers and District/City Nutrition Program Coordinators last February 10, 2014 at Sarabia Manor Hotel, Iloilo City.The briefing was intended to inform key nutrition personalities such…
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Goiter, Iodine Deficiency Disorders, serious concerns
ILOILO CITY – The National Nutrition Council has recently embarked on a heightened campaign to create greater awareness that Goiter and Iodine Deficiency Disorders are serious concerns.The NNC recently designated January 20-26 as Goiter awareness week but Regional Nutrition Program Coordinator Nona Tad-y said the awareness campaign should continue.Tad-y said that it is not enough…
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RNPC Nona B. Tad-y Lobbies for Support to BNS Program
Guimaras-RNPC Nona B. Tad-y of National Nutrition Council (NNC), Region VI, met Guimaras Congressman JC Rahman A. Nava on 11 January 2014, to request support for the Barangay Nutrition Scholars(BNS).As Senior Vice-CHAIR, Committee on Appropriations – House of Representatives, a previous Governor, Province of Guimaras, and a medical doctor by profession, Congressman Nava can lead…
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NGF Launched in Western Visayas
ILOILO CITY– The revised 2012 Nutritional Guidelines for Filipinos (NGF) was finally launched in the region signaling the start of a massive promotion for the messages.“This hammers the idea that we now have a set of guidelines focusing on the nutrition situation of Filipinos,” Assistant Secretary of Health Maria-Bernardita T. Flores, CESO II and the…
