L egal

mandates
Related to Nutrition and Diet
Therapy

Rica Mae D. MONTARIN

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FOOD AND DRUG

ADMINISTRATION RA 9711

“The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)

Act of 2009”.The FDA Act of 2009 created
the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
in the Department of Health(DOH) to be
headed by a Director General with the
rank of Undersecretary of Health.

MAJOR AIMS OF THE FDA ACT

-To protect and promote the right to

health of the Filipino people

-To establish and maintain health
products regulatory system
-Important Definition in the FDA Act
The Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Privacy Rule intended to address potential
threats to patient privacy posed by the
computerization and standardisation of medical
records, provides a new poor level of federal
protection for health information.

The Privacy Rule limits the circumstances under

which Covered Encodes can use or disclose
protected health information (PHI),requiring,
with some exception, authorization from the
patent to permit uses and disclosures of PHI for
research.

The definition of PHI excludes individually

indefinable health information contained in
certain educational or employment records. The
Privacy Rule regulates the use and disclosure of
PHI by Covered Encodes. Covered Encodes are
health plans (eg, health insurers), healthcare
clearinghouses (encodes that receive healthcare
transactions from providers or others, translate
the data into a form acceptable to the pay or, and
forward the processed transaction to payors and
clearinghouses), and healthcare providers (eg,
hospitals and physicians that transmit health
information in connection with a specified
transaction).
THE NATIONAL NUTRITION COUNCIL
GOVERNING BOARD (NNC GB)

chaired by Health Secretary and Chairperson

Francisco T. Duque III approved during its meeting
on 21 June 2018 the Policy Statement on Fad Diets,
as explained in the NNC Governing Board
Resolution No. 4 Series of 2018.

This is to address the issue of the proliferation of

fad diets which is growing in popularity among
Filipinos interested in losing weight. The policy
declares that the NNC does not recommend the
use of fad diets for weight loss as it may pose
potential health risk and dangers. Instead, the
NNC recommends the adherence to a holistic,
sustainable, adequate, and nutrionally-balanced
diet, complemented by an active lifestyle and
lifelongbehavioral modifications. Moreover, to
prevent further increase of overweight and
obesity prevalence in the Philippines, the NNC
Governing Board also asserts that population-
based interventions, particularly through the
promotion of healthier food environments and
systems, as well as public awareness through
behavioural change, should complement
individual efforts to combat overweight and
obesity