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Malnutrition Blamed on Filipino Laziness?
« on: July 29, 2013, 05:37:38 PM »
Rey Anthony Chiu

To those who think the way towards nutritious food is costly, think again.

In a province where a prevailing poverty “restricts” a family’s options for healthy food, Barangay Health Workers (BHWs) and agriculture officials hint, malnutrition is due to laziness and plain indifference.

During the weekly Kapihan sa PIA which attempted to chop to pieces nutrition problems into bite-size discussions for the family, both BHWs Natividad Torrevillas and Judith Bonhayag said the path to nutrition can be easily laid beginning in one’s back or front yard.

“You do not need to buy, because all that the body needs for a healthy and productive life can be sourced out, fresh and organic from your garden,” Torrevillas said.

And talking of backyard gardening, Sergio Cuaco, crops division chief at the Provincial Agriculture quickly inserted in the discussion the unforgettable image of the Bahay Kubo in the Philippines.

A typical nipa hut in the song showcases a surrounding garden of assorted vegetables like singkamas, eggplant, (talong) sireguelas at peanuts (mani). String beans (sitaw) bataw, patani, kundol, gourd (patola), upo, squash (kalabasa), labanos, mustasa, onions (sebuyas) tomatoes (kamatis), garlic (bawang) and ginger (luy-a).

A Filipino folksong, Bahay Kubo has now become a catchword for a local campaign for food sufficiency in Bohol where households down to the smallest purok are enjoined to start cultivating patches of gardens in the backyard.

Governor Edgar Chatto has aggressive pushed for the Food Always in the Home (FAITH) using the bahay kubo model.

To complete the picture, Chatto instructed Bohol agricultural workers to also relentlessly campaign for Chicken which are Always Raised In The Yard (ChARITY).

When you have the vegetables in the backyard, raising chicken gives you eggs which man needs, while meat can be easily within reach, Chatto said.

It is easy, but we have to engage all members of the family so the children can also understand the value of work, added Eleno Evangelista, Bohol Agriculture Program Promotions and Marketing Chief.

We can even give them the seeds they will need to grow the garden, Evangelista volunteered.

The OPA, in its outreach program, hands out vegetable seeds and seedlings to motivate Boholanos into joining the fight against malnutrition.

“It all starts with the right education,” Bonhayag quipped, adding that the modern age of fast food has unwittingly conditioned parents’ minds into surrendering to the lure of easy to cook fast food.

Both health workers also agree that some parents are not keen on focusing on their key roles as he first nutrition teachers to kids.

Bonhayag said it is never too late for parents, especially those who have children aged 0-7 years who are underweight, to pick up the nutrition guide which health workers disseminate in clustered learning teams commonly named Pabasa sa Nutrisyon groups.

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