PALO, LEYTE – The sweetest time of the year is spending quality time with your family and loved ones on holiday’s season. Of course, the celebration of love and peace is incomplete without feasting on the food prepared wholeheartedly using the family traditional’s secret recipe. Fatty foods such as lechon, sweet glazed ham, fruit cake,…

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TACLOBAN CITY – Aimed at reducing the prevalence of stunting among children is the project goal of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) new project for Eastern Visayas’ integrated nutrition and Health Actions in the First 1,000 Days of Life: Improving lives of vulnerable children and women in Samar…

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TACLOBAN CITY – The Harmonized Initiatives of Media for the Spread of Good Nutrition in Region 8 (HIMSoG-8), has joined the National Technical Assistance Monitoring and Evaluation (TAME) Team and representative from private evaluator Info-Share during its last salvo of Media-Nutrition Caravan for year 2018 to the Accelerated and Sustainable Anti-Poverty Program (ASAPP) areas of…

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PALO, Leyte – More than 2,000 front liners nutrition advocates, well known as Barangay Nutrition Scholars (BNSs), around Eastern Visayas region gathered at the Leyte Academic Center (LAC) on 10-11 October 2018 for the 4th Regional Conference of Barangay Nutrition Scholars, flying the theme: “BNS: Bayani ng Nutrisyon, Noon, Ngayon at Bukas!”Initiated by the Eastern…

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PALO, Leyte — Implementation of the program meant to ensure proper nourishment within the child’s first 1,000 days of life is now under review in four pilot areas in Leyte province.A team from the National Nutrition Council (NNC) arrived on Tuesday for the week-long review of the Early Childhood Care and Development First 1,000 Days (ECCD-F1K)…

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PALO, Leyte – The Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition (PPAN) 2017-2022 is the battle plan against malnutrition in the country, to eradicate or bring down malnutrition incidence particularly stunting (short for age), wasting (thin for age), underweight (light for age), overweight and obesity, micronutrient deficiencies, and hunger and food insecurity by year 2022.Dr. Catalino…

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To strengthen the capacities of the local planning core team, the National Nutrition Council VIII trained thirty-six (36) nutrition advocates particularly the nutrition action officers, municipal planning officers, budget officers and nutritionist dietitians on nutrition program management (NPM). The training course on nutrition program management was conducted from 17 to 21 September 2018 at the…

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Palo, Leyte-In order to promote and improve the nutritional and health status among government workers and its clients, the Regional Technical Working Group on Nutrition endorses to the Regional Nutrition Committee the policy statement on nutrition program for government workers of the National Nutrition Council during its Third Quarter Meeting held on 20 September at…

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TACLOBAN CITY – Nutrition Officers, planning and development coordinators and budget managers of the four provinces in Eastern Visayas together with their component cities and municipalities underwent a two-day workshop on “Enhancing Local Nutrition Action Plans (LNAPs) and Budget for 2019” conducted in the months of July and August, this year. The four provinces considered…

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Nowadays, social media plays a big role in influencing of what is right and what is wrong and eventually putting everything into society’s norm. It is like normalizing the unconventional ways or it could be the reverse way and breastfeeding campaign is not exempted. Breastfeeding campaign is still one of the challenges needed to be…

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