Staying healthy during the flu season can be challenging as the wet weather creates a perfect environment for viruses to thrive and spread. This is the very reason why the wet season is also known as the flu season in the Philippines. Inside churches or public transport like jeepneys, one can...
How many times have you tried to go on a diet and failed? How many times have you tried to exercise and ended up not doing it again? Why does it seem so easy when other people do it, and it takes so much effort on your end without any visible results? Where did you go wrong? Being healthy is not...
The Department of Education (DepEd) on Tuesday, July 8, announced that it is scaling up the Healthy Learning Institutions (HLI) program to transform public schools into health-promoting campuses nationwide. From remote mountain barangays to crowded urban classrooms, over 1,500 public schools have...
President Marcos has stressed the need for a long-term program that would promote healthy diet among the youth in order to avoid chronic diseases. During his visit at the National Kidney Transplant Institute (NKTI) on Thursday, June 19, to formally launch the expanded benefit package for adult and...
When searching for organic food and vitamins, Healthy Options is one of the top-of-the-mind stores. But unknown to many, especially for skincare and makeup enthusiasts, long before clean beauty became a trend and developed into an actual lifestyle, since 1995, Healthy Options is already offering...
With how fast-paced our lives are, eating can become a chore. It’s something that needs to be done—just to fill our stomachs and pacify hunger pains. Picking up anything that’s in close range, most of us end up multi-tasking as we eat while we work, eat while we check our phones, eat while we...
“Make a healthy diet affordable for all” (Healthy diet gawing affordable for all!) – so declares the theme of Nutrition Month which is held every July as set by Presidential Decree 491 in 1974 to create greater awareness on the importance of nutrition. This year’s theme is a reminder that...
ILOILO CITY – The Healthy Hearts program of the Department of Health has expanded to 16 towns in Iloilo province. OFFICIALS in Iloilo pledge to support the third phase of the Healthy Hearts program of the Department of Health (DOH). The program aims to reduce mortality rate of non-communicable...
As access to health facilities and doctors become more inaccessible to Filipinos, First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos hopes to address this deep-rooted problem through the mobilization of her “Lab For All Konsulta Caravan” program. (Photo from First Lady Liza Araneta-Marcos' Facebook page) This...
The Civil Service Commission (CSC) reminded government agencies on Tuesday, May 9 of the need to implement measures that promote a healthy workplace. In a statement, CSC said that a healthy public sector workforce is a productive workforce. “We count on our civil servants to run the day-to-day...
Eating healthy food has loads of benefits. It may even prevent noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), said the Healthy Philippines Alliance (HPA) on Tuesday, March 21. In light of the National Women’s Month celebration, HPA urged Filipinas to follow a healthy diet, reiterating that unhealthy eating...
As this is still February, the Month of Love, let’s give importance to the central figure of it all, which is equally significant as your hopes, dreams, and feelings — your heart. The heart is the physical organ that needs no introduction, as science has not discovered any alternative for it....
