Nutrition month celeb calls for unity and strengthened food, nutrition security policies
By ANNA LIZA J. ARCA
Imelda Mar Elementary School
South Butuan District I
The National Nutrition Council has announced the celebration of this year’s Nutrition Month Healthy with the theme Diet Gawing Affordable for All! The celebration calls for unity and strengthened food and nutrition security policies and programs that will enable Filipinos to have greater access to healthy, safe, and affordable food.
The celebration is pursuant to Presidential Decree No. 491, s. 1974, July was declared as Nutrition Month and shall be celebrated every year to raise public awareness about the value of good nutrition.
The national celebration is in line with the Philippine Development Plans’ targets of improving the access of Filipino consumers to affordable, safe, and nutritious food and attaining a sufficient and stable food commodities.
Also, the celebration aims to engage consumers to support improvements in levels of diet quality towards sustainable healthy diets; generate stakeholders’ participation at various levels on actions towards enabling access to affordable sustainable healthy diets for the Philippine Plan of Action for, and call support for the Philippine Plan of Action for Nutrition 2023-2028 as the framework for action to improve nutrition security.
In order to promote public awareness about the celebration, all Department of Education offices are encouraged to support the 2023 National Nutrition Month by undertaking related activities. ###
