TYPHOON Glenda, the first powerful storm for the year, hit the country in July, just in time when the country is celebrating nutrition month with the theme Kalamidad Paghandaan: Gutom at Malnutrisyon Agapan.

The National Nutrition Council (NNC)  Technical Committee decided on this theme to consider the impact of emergencies and disasters, natural and human-induced, on the nutritional status of affected population groups. Nutrition emergencies refer to situations in which food security is often severely threatened causing increased risk to malnutrition, illness and death. Nutrition in emergencies, on the other hand, refers to key nutrition services that are components of emergency preparedness, response and recovery phases aimed at preventing death and worsening of malnutrition in the affected population, particularly in the most nutritionally-vulnerable groups: infants, children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers, and older persons.

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