1.            National Nutrition Month is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the Academy of Nutritionand Dietetics. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits.
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   2015 nutrition month to focus on obesity

3. The National Nutrition Council aims to put the spotlight on the problem of obesity in the Philippines during the National Nutrition Month in July.

4. OBESITY PROBLEM. The National Nutrition Council hopes to raise awareness on the problem of obesity in the Philippines.

   
   

   
   

   MANILA, Philippines – The National Nutrition Council (NNC) announced that this year’s Nutrition Month theme will focus on the growing problem of obesity in the Philippines.

   The 2015 Nutrition Month campaign, “Timbang iwasto sa tamang nutrisyon at ehersisyo,” (Correct weight through right nutrition and exercise) aims to make people aware about how they can prevent obesity. This will be done by providing them with adequate information.

   July of each year is designated National Nutrition Month by virtue of Presidential Decree No. 491 signed into law in 1974. In 2014, the campaign focused on disasters and their effect on nutrition among Filipinos.

   Assistant Secretary of Health and NNC executive director Maria-Bernadita Flores explained that the number of Filipinos suffering from excessive weight has been increasing through the years.

   From 1993’s 16.6%, the prevalence of overweight Filipinos rose to 31.1% in 2013. In fact, according to the 8th National Nutrition Survey (NNS) conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute (FNRI), 3 out of 10 Filipino adults are obese.

   Obesity has not only affected adults but also children. NNS also found that overweight and obesity prevalence among children is 5%, while for Filipino teenagers, it is 8.3%.

   This, besides existing under-nutrition, leaves the Philippines with a problem of double burden malnutrition.
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