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    Nutrition Month is an annual campaign held in July in the Philippines to promote awareness of proper nutrition. The campaign is mandated by Presidential Decree 491, also known as the Nutrition Act, which tasks the National Nutrition Council with leading the nationwide efforts. The campaign aims to educate specific at-risk groups on behaviors that can improve nutrition, such as preventing child wasting, which is a life-threatening condition of being underweight for one's height caused by inadequate diet and illness.

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    Nutrition Month is an annual campaign held in July in the Philippines to promote awareness of proper nutrition. The campaign is mandated by Presidential Decree 491, also known as the Nutrition Act, which tasks the National Nutrition Council with leading the nationwide efforts. The campaign aims to educate specific at-risk groups on behaviors that can improve nutrition, such as preventing child wasting, which is a life-threatening condition of being underweight for one's height caused by inadequate diet and illness.

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    Nutrition Month is an annual campaign held in July in the Philippines to promote awareness of proper nutrition. The campaign is mandated by Presidential Decree 491, also known as the Nutrition Act, which tasks the National Nutrition Council with leading the nationwide efforts. The campaign aims to educate specific at-risk groups on behaviors that can improve nutrition, such as preventing child wasting, which is a life-threatening condition of being underweight for one's height caused by inadequate diet and illness.

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    Welcome to our TLE

    Class!

    Ms. Jennelyn Madrid


    TLE Teacher
    What is Nutrition Month?

    ● Nutrition Month is an annual campaign held every


    July to create greater awareness among Filipinos on
    the importance of nutrition as provided under
    Presidential Decree 491, or the Nutrition Act of the
    Philippines. The law also mandates the National
    Nutrition Council (NNC) to lead and coordinate the
    nationwide campaign.
    The campaign wants to reach
    specific target groups whose
    behavior or actions can support
    nutrition improvement.
    2. Wasting

    It is the condition of being very thin for height, often occurring in a short period,
    resulting in death if left without intervention. It is measured as below -2 standard
    deviations of the WHO-CGS for weight-for-height, <115 mm mid-upper arm
    circumference (MUAC), or bilateral pitting edema. It is caused by inadequate
    quantity and quality of dietary intake and prolonged illnesses, usually associated
    with poverty and poor maternal and child health and nutrition.
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