- A sufficient household income
brings up a decent food on the table, well balanced in
nutrition which supplies the nutritional needs of the
whole family. Since to subsist is to survive , meaning to
continue existing to whatever available resources at
hand, proper nourishment can only be attained and equated
from sufficiency. With poverty and insufficiency of needs
on each filipino family, malnourishment has struck the
country, more so the children and the newly born.
Filipinos were tagged as the "Sick Man of Asia"
by its asian neighbours and the western world alike.
Let's see the actual press releas from a local manila
paper:
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- Malnutrition Growing on
Newly Born
- By: Malou Rongalerios
- "Malnourished babies will
surely multiply if the government will not focus its
resources on the issue. With the growing problem of
malnutrition which brings about intellectually and
physically underdeveloped babie's, and other physical
defects as goiter and anemia. It was also researched that
approximately a million filipino babies have been
suffering from "protein energy malnutrition"
These infants were born insufficient in weight and size
compared to other healthy ones. It was also noted that
most of these newly born females are suffering from
anemia and goiter".
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- With poverty and economic
turmoil in the country, a common household cannot afford
to enjoy sufficient nutrition for the growing kids. Since
most of the filipino families live below poverty line,
majority of our people cannot afford to enjoy the same
nutrition as the western world does. This results to poor
athletics. Evidently, filipino athletes cannot fare up
with its neighboring asian countries and the west. Not
even a single Olympic gold has any filipino athlete
brought home on any event. This is mainly due to improper
nutrition which started from early childhood of a common
filipino. Support for its national athletes is also below
par. Vitamin supplements and modern performance
enhancement drugs that are readily available to the west
are way in-accessible to our local athletes because of
economic reasons. The result? Poor performance and
dwindling participation from the people.
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