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10:06 pm | Tuesday, September 4th, 2012

In 2011, around 15 percent of children aged five and below in the National Capital Region were underweight while nearly eight percent were overweight for their height, according to data from the Food and Nutrition Research Institute. Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research


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