Nutrition Month Celebration

     Our country, Philippines is one which is often times stroke by numerous calamities. To name same, earthquakes, el nino, la nina and the most common, typhoons, We are being visited by more than 20 typhoons every year. The questions are: Are we ready to face these natural disasters? How strong are we to undergo their effects?

     The month of July is known to be the Nutrition Month Celebration with a broad theme. It is encouraging us Filipinos to have a remedy to one of the worst effect of calamities, which is hunger. It encourages us to use available resources or materials in the locality to create palatable menus, that is interesting to children, for us not to be problematic about hunger. If Filipinos will be able to remedy hunger with available materials on the place then malnutrition will no longer be a problem. This skill will make us ready with any calamity that may stroke our place.

     But this is only one of the many things that we can do to be calamity ready. This must take a long preparation since we need to restructure our environment. As a popular saying goes, "Prevention is Better Than Cure". We must start planting trees for us to provide soil holders. Or we must learn the 3R's: reduce, reuse and recycle. But knowing is not enough, we must apply what we know in order for our country be calamity free.