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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.
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 ...
In 1968, the council's name was changed to President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to emphasize the importance of sports in life. [17] In 1972, the Presidential Sports Award Program was created. [18] In 1983, the United States Congress declared May as National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.
The National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) is an Indian public health, nutrition and translational research centre located in Hyderabad, India. [1] [2] The institute is one of the oldest research centres in India, and the largest centre, under the Indian Council of Medical Research, located in the vicinity of Osmania University.
The National Nutrition Agency is a cabinet-level agency formed by President Joko Widodo to initiate Prabowo's free lunch for students and provide nutritional adequacy for 4 vulnerable groups: students (of elementary to senior high school, special needs education, and pesantrens), toddlers, pregnant women, and lactating women.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics was founded in 1917 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a group of women led by Seventh-day Adventist Lenna F. Cooper, [13] [14] and the Academy's first president, Lulu G. Graves, for the purpose helping the government conserve food and improve public health during World War I. [1]
The National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-445) was a statute enacted by United States Congress to establish a comprehensive, coordinated program for nutrition monitoring, and related research to improve the assessment of the health and nutrition of the population of United States. The Act required:
The impetus for formation of the committee was a rising concern about hunger and malnutrition in the United States. It had been brought to public attention by the 1967 field trip of Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph S. Clark to see emaciated children in Cleveland, Mississippi, [1] by the 1967 broadcast of the CBS News special Hunger in America, [2] and by the 1968 publication of Citizens ...