With theme “Kumain nang wasto at maging aktibo… Push natin ‘to!,” DepEd said that the Nutrition Month celebration aims to “promote the consumption of healthy diets, increased physical activity, and reduced sedentary behavior through activities of daily living among individuals and families.” The observation of the Nutrition Month is led by the National Nutrition Council .
Schools, through the Nutrition Month celebration, should also to create awareness among learners on “making the right choices of food” and to “encourage food industry, producers, distributors, and farmers and make healthy foods available for all.”In time for Nutrition Month being observed every July, Save the Children Philippines urged mothers to exclusively breastfeed their newborns as malnutrition remains on steady rise among babies and pre-schoolers in the country.
The nutrition survey, Muyot said, should serve as “a wake-up call.” Citing additional data, the group noted that “anemia cases among babies six to 11 months increased to 48.2 per cent in 2018 from 40.5 per cent in 2013, while anemia among toddlers aged one to two years old have increased to 35.4 per cent last year from 24.7 per cent in 2013” while stunting— a life threatening condition due to chronic undernutrition— “remains high at 36.6 per cent for children two years old in 2018, from 36.
Save the Children Philippines has also been campaigning to eradicate malnutrition among children through maternal and child health and nutrition programs for children and pregnant and lactating mothers in deprived areas in the cities of Malabon, Navotas and Caloocan of Metro Manila as well as conflict affected areas of Mindanao.
“Malnutrition is a very complex problem with long-term effects physically, mentally and socially,” Parawan said. “With the passage of RA 11148, now is the perfect time to mobilize collaborative actions from all sectors…we should always remember that takes a village to raise and nurture a child,” he ended.
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
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