Nutritional Status of the Filipinos

Asian will be holding a free lecture followed by free osteoporosis screening tomorrow for those interested and think that their poor nutrition, hormonal status and age is affecting the integrity of their bones. Cheers, belles, and take care!

 my simple diet is to take daily every morning calamansi juice without sugar, then my breakfast, is the blended vegetable leaves like saluyot, camote tops, spinach, alugbati ,with one whole banana and apple mix with olive oil and half cup of water. at 10 am , i take pure juice like carrots with apple , lunch half cup of rice with fish and vegetables and veg salad. same in dinner. I feel great with diet, i can work and live as normal person being a cancer survivor for 2 years.

I thought about the rise of the BPO industry and night shifts in the Philippines, but that only is attributable to a small fraction of the population.

For CED I think the most prevalent causes are poverty and lack of education. On the other hand, what I presume to mainly contribute to obesity is the lifestyle shift. Filipinos are getting more physically inactive compared to what we used to be. Way back then kids used to play patintero, habulan, etc but now they are more into computer games.

what we can do about it? hmmm.. it's hard, but I think the best way to start is not to contribute to the problem ourselves. The change should start within us. This is an issue of national concern, and I think with good governance, we can slowly start to improve the situation. Our leaders can follow the footsteps of the likes of Michelle Obama in advocating the fight against childhood obesity.