A Binay presidency will work to bring down significantly the number of malnourished children in the country,” Joey Salgado,  chief for media affairs of the Office of the Vice President, said on Thursday.

According to the 8th National Nutrition Survey (NNS) of the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST), 19.9 percent of children ages 0 to 5 are underweight.

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