Addressing Overweight News Today

Around 27 million Filipinos are overweight and obese, the latest survey of the Department of Science and Technology’s Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI) showed. For the past two decades, overweight and obesity among adults has almost doubled from 20.2 percent in 1998 to 36.6 percent in 2019, the Department…

DOH and development partners call for a whole-of-society approach to reduce obesity in the Philippines

The Department of Health (DOH), National Nutrition Council (NNC), Philippine Association for the Study of Overweight and Obesity (PASOO), Nutrition Center of the Philippines (NCP), World Health Organization (WHO), and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) raise the alarm on growing obesity in the Philippines on the occasion of World Obesity…