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The Nutri-Chef Challenge was initiated by the National Nutrition Council 7, Media Information Network for Nutrition and Development 7 with Cebu City Nutrition Committee which was held last 23 April 2012 at the Plaza Sugbu, Cebu City. During the launch last year, during the opening of Nutrition Month celebration organized by the National Nutrition Council in Central Visayas (NNC-7) at SM City Cebu, the nutri-chef challenge is implemented at the barangay level through the barangay nutrition scholars, said NNC-7 regional coordinator Dr. Letlet Mission.

“Most of the children don’t like vegetables. This is our way of promoting the nutritious food (vegetables) among the children who are easily attracted to commercials endorsing junk food and other non-nutritious food,” said Dr. Mission.


Criteria of Judging: 
palatibilty (25%), use of nutritious ingredients (25%), originality (20%), visual appeal (15%), and ease of preparation (15%). The board of judges was composed of Ms. Josie F. Elli, Senior Science Research Specialist of DOST 7 who was also the chairperson, Ms. Trinidad R. Sumalinog, RND, Canteen Concessioner & food entrepreneur, and Mr. Marlou Almasco, Sous Chef from Golden Prince Hotel.

Nutri-Chef Challenge 2012 Sponsors: 

•  Lactobiotics 
• Worldwide Corporation; 
•  Salinas Foods, Inc.; 
• Meat magic; 
• Miller hospital; 
• Marc and mattheau’s catering and services; 
• Department of Agriculture 7; 
• Golden Prince Hotel 

About Nutri-Chef Challenge: 
“Nutri-Chef Challenge” is a cooking contest designed to promote vegetable recipes among the children. The challenge involves cooking contests with green, leafy vegetables as the main ingredients. A panel of judges that includes a local nutritionist will select the top three contestants during the contest.A group of children will taste the recipes of the top three contestants to determine the winner.


Nutri-Chef ChallengeWinners: 
Ms. Regina Mercedes Lingaolingao’s Mixed Vegetable Omelet got the judges’ nod and won the coveted first prize during the Regional Vegetable Recipe Development Contest cook-off. Her winning recipe with squash, carrots, chayote, malungay and egg as main ingredients bested all the other seven finalists. She took home with Php10,000.00 cash prize and gift packs. The judges gave her and her recipe a score of 91.67%.

Winning Recipe

Garnering second place was Ms. Teresita Flordeliz’s “Sautéed Vegetables with Fish” with a score of 86.33%. Winning third place was Ms. Teresa Carabuena-Dizon’s “Vegetable Bola-Bola Rolled in Biscuit Crumbs” with a score of 83.67%. Winners for the second and third place received Php8,000.00 and Php6,000.00 plus gift packs, respectively. Consolation prizes of Php2,000.00 and gift packs each were given to other contestants.

Vegetable Bola-bola!

The organizers also gave out Special Awards, namely; the Super Saver’s Award and the Children’s Choice Award. The Super Saver’s Award, an award given to the recipe with the least total cost per serving was cornered by Ms. Roxanne Charity Lingaolingao for her Creamy Mix Vegetables with Dried Dilis. On the other hand, the Children’s Choice Award, based on the recipe garnering the highest smiley points given by the 5 children judges, was awarded to Ms. Florentina Bulgado with her recipe Tortang Kapayas.

The winning recipes will be compiled into a recipe book that will be printed for distribution to beneficiaries of the government’s Pantawid Pamilya or the Conditional Cash Transfer program administered by the DSWD as a way for NNC to contribute to improved nutrition of poorest families. The recipe book will also be distributed to local nutrition workers as an IEC material for helping families improve their meals and develop healthy food intake.

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The first WEALTH of a person is HEALTH. If a child is sick or is receiving poor nutrition, no matter how gifted that child is or even a genius child could no excel if one doesn't receive the right form of nutritional support. Aside from that, proper knowledge in the masses about health is also limited. This should not be the case since this is the future generation that we are talking about and they must be well supported for the future of our nation.

Truly we live in very interesting times, not only our nutrition and health are somewhat intertwined with the problems of community hygiene, education and food but also, with agriculture, environment and climate change. These issues we are facing in these interesting times cannot be solved by the same line of thought of the current generation of leaders and movers. This is where the youth must come in and help out in the problems in our community and what better way to show this by inviting young, enthusiastic students to share their creative ideas!

By partnering with more youth on this cause, the higher the chances of helping more communities become healthier and more productive.  Fifteen communities all over the country will benefit from this expansion through the social marketing programs by 15 youth teams that will all receive PHP100,000 seed money for
the implementation of their ideas.

The groups will also be flown in to Manila, with free hotel accommodation, meals, and transportation, to attend a 3-day boot camp where they can learn social marketing approaches from a pool of experts through workshops and case studies.
This year, not only is the program expanding to cover more regions, but UNILAB is also giving more focus on outcomes. The reward for the best teams will only be after they have demonstrated that their positive ideas have resulted in positive outcomes for the community.

Interested college students can join by teaming up and registering at www.unilabideaspositive.com. Deadline for submission of entries is on April 16.

On day 3, was a Day tour in various places in Bohol and that concluded the whole celebration of the 3-day convention.

With the increasing incidence rate of thyroid cancer in Metro Cebu, the Eduardo J. Aboitiz Cancer Center (EJACC) of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) urged the public to undergo early screening and prevention measures to fight the disease.

“Thyroid cancer is high on prognosis. It is preventable through various screening methods, such as physical examination and ultrasound of the neck, as well as some prevention measures, including regular exercise and maintenance of a well-balanced diet,” Ronald delos Reyes, EJACC program coordinator, said.

Based on EJACC’s Metro Cebu Population-based Cancer Registry, the incidence rate of thyroid cancer in 2003 to 2007 is high but the mortality rate is comparatively lower.

Within this period, about 573 cases of thyroid cancer were reported and 116 were recorded to have died of the disease. The figures also show that 97 cases have been attributed to persons in between the ages 15-30 while 350 cases are persons with ages 30-60. More women than men have been affected by this disease; in fact, 134 cases are male while 439 cases are female.

As a common type of cancer diagnosed in men and women, thyroid cancer ranked sixth in most common cancer cases in Metro Cebu.

According to the 2010 journal of the Philippine Cancer Facts and Estimates of the Philippine Cancer Society, the incidence rate had increased from 1980 to 2002, with an annual change of 0.4% in males and 1.6% among females.

Thyroid cancer is the most common cancer of women at ages 15-24 years. Among women, the incidence rate rises at age 30 and continues to rise with increasing age. Among men, the incidence rate begins to increase much later, starting at 60 years old.

The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the front of the neck just below the Adam’s apple. It works like a tiny factory that uses iodine, mostly from the diet in foods like seafood and salt, to produce thyroid hormones that, in turn, help regulate the body’s growth and metabolism and other functions of the body.

The most common signs and symptoms of thyroid cancer include a lump or thyroid nodule, that can be felt in the neck; trouble in swallowing; throat or neck pain; swollen lymph nodes in the neck; cough; and vocal changes.

People exposed to high levels of radiation are much more likely than others to develop papillary or follicular thyroid cancer. Treatment with x-rays is one significant source of radiation exposure. Between the 1920s and the 1950s, doctors used high-dose x-rays to treat children who had enlarged tonsils, acne, and other problems affecting the head and neck. Later, scientists found that some people who had received this kind of treatment developed thyroid cancer.

People who are diagnosed with this kind of cancer may undergo surgery. Common surgeries include thyroidectory, lobectomy, and tracheostomy. Sometimes, even the removal of the thyroid itself is needed.

“Like many other cancers, thyroid cancer may be more easily cured with early detection. Earlier diagnosis removes thyroid cancer at a time when they are not likely to have spread beyond the thyroid gland,” delos Reyes said.

For more information about thyroid cancer, please contact EJACC at 254-6351and look for Gina Mariquit.

Doctors pose together with the staff of EJACC after the free breast and cervical cancer screening at EJACC located inside the compound of the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center.

More than 200 women benefited from the free breast and cervical screening held last June 21 at the Eduardo J. Aboitiz Cancer Center (EJACC) and last June 25 at the Cebu Technology University (CTU).

EJACC of the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc. (RAFI) was tapped to be part of the grand outreach program dubbed “Halad sa Kapamilya” initiated by the Cebu City Chamber of Commerce and Industry and ABS-CBN at CTU.

The screening activities were organized in collaboration with the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center (VSMMC) OB-GYN Department, VSMMC Breast Clinic, Integrated Midwife Association of the Philippines-Cebu Midwife Clinic, and Destiny Medical Fund.

Irenea Bacla-an from Consolacion,Cebu, one of the women who underwent the screening, came to avail the service to determine any abnormalities of her body and to be able to treat them as early as possible.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death among Filipino women while cervical cancer is the second most common cancer among women.

EJACC, which offers free breast and cervical screening every month, urges the public to undergo early detection measures—especially maintaining a healthy lifestyle and nutrition, exercise, proper hygiene, and avoiding stresses and vices—to prevent breast and cervical cancer.

EJACC is a program under the Integrated Development focus area of RAFI, addressing health issues of communities in order to create a better quality of life. Its other focus areas are Micro-finance and Entrepreneurship, Culture & Heritage, Leadership and Citizenship, and Education.
For more information about breast and cervical cancer, please contact 254-6351 and look for Gina Mariquit.

REGISTRATION for the Casino Femme Run "The Empowered Series" is still on in the following locations: Parkmall, Cebu City Sports Center, and Runners Ayala. The Empowered Series Run - Cebu Leg will be on December 12, 2010 @ 5:30AM at the Park Mall, Mandaue City.

After their successful staging of their Mindanao leg last November in Davao City which attracted more than 1,600 runners, the organizers (IPI) are expecting to draw more here in the Visayas leg. With the Cebu City Sports commission's plan of regulating running events in Cebu next year since not a few are doing it for Business, Dela Merced said that they are holding running events because it is the company's core objective to pursue and promote health and wellness.

Aside from the marketing aspect, IPI Foundation also has chosen beneficiaries wherein, these beneficiaries shall receive a portion of the proceeds for the benefit or their organization's programs and projects which is also part of the company's Corporate Social Responsibility programs. One of those organization is Ramon Aboitiz Foundation Inc.'s ALEx - Aboitiz Leaders of Excellence.

The event features the all-women 3K and 1.5K run, men's and women's 10K and men's and women's 5K divisions. The first four 10K finishers will receive P10,000, P5,000, P3,000 and P1,000 while the next six placers will get gift packs and medals. The 5K first four runners will go home with P6,000, P4,000, P2,000 and P1,000 while the next six placers will also receive gift packs and medals. All first three placers will also claim trophies.

In 3K, the champion will pocket P4,000 while the following three runners will settle for P3,000, P2,000 and P1,000, respectively. The 1.5 K all-women event top four will take home P3,000, P2,000, P1,000 and P500. Gift packs and medals will also be given to the fifth to 10th finishers.

Registration Fees for the Casino Femme Run:

* 1.5K & 3K = Php250.00
* 5K = Php300.00
* 10K = Php350.00