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National Nutrition Council, abbreviated as NNC, is an agency of the Philippine government under the Department of Health responsible for creating a conducive policy environment for national and local nutrition planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and surveillance using state-of the art technology and approaches.
Their Nutrition and Health Kiddie Class (NHKC) program which aims to educate children, aged four to six, about the importance of food and nutrition. They have also implemented the Urban Family Development Program in 1991 to improve the nutritional status of depressed urban families through livelihood assistance and health and nutrition classes ...
As of September 2020, the Philippines has a population of nearly 110 million and a population density of 368 per square kilometer. 32% of the population of the Philippines is under 15 years old, and only 22.2% is over 60. In the Philippines, 16.6% of the population lived below the national poverty line in 2018. [8] [9]
Philippine Star analyst Kimani Franco cited Reynaldo G. Alejandro's 1980 New York Times description of bayanihan as a connotation of "team spirit, an atmosphere of unselfish cooperation, and it represents the nature of family and village life throughout the Philippine archipelago," and cited this particular value as a reason why the initiative ...
In the Philippines, food and nutrition research investigates the ideal diet for Filipinos to solve the problem of malnutrition and the current state of nutrition. The Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI) is the principal research arm of the Philippine government in food and nutrition.
Recent editions of the SOFI report (The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World) present evidence that the decades-long decline in hunger in the world, as measured by the number of undernourished (NoU), has ended. In the 2020 report, FAO used newly accessible data from China to revise the global NoU downwards to nearly 690 million, or ...
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Nutriskwela Community Radio Network is a network of low-powered community radio stations around the Philippines.The network and its radio stations are owned by the National Nutrition Council (an attached agency of the Department of Health), in partnership with various local government units and educational institutions, and are licensed as non-commercial stations, with programming focused on ...