A teenager who helped harvest vegetables grown on a vacant lot in Quezon City was found dead on the same lot early Thursday morning, less than eight hours after he was abducted by unidentified armed men the night before.
The late Interior Secretary Jessie Robredo is Inquirer’s Filipino of the Year for 2012.
Lawmakers are concerned that Filipinos are eating more meat and chicken and less fruits and vegetables based on a government study covering 30 years.
Since my wife started doing yoga, we’ve been eating more vegetables at home and practically no meat except fish. She’s determined to become a pesco-ovo-lacto-vegetarian (someone who eats only fish, eggs, dairy and veggies), an experiment that I predict will not last four months (I failed in my own experiment with meatlessness once).
PLANTING vegetables, selling the produce to the residents was one way Purok Pinya earned and grew.
Thousands of vegetable growers and livestock raisers will soon reach their buyers without going through middlemen, thanks to the newly launched “Agri-Pinoy Trading Centers” of the Department of Agriculture.
Despite living in a region that produces most of the country’s salad vegetables, many Cordillerans lack vegetables in their diet, health officials said.
In time for Nutrition Month, nearly a hundred kids were treated to yummy snacks and exciting stories during Saturday afternoon’s Inquirer Read-Along session at the Inquirer main office in Makati, which featured renowned cake decorator Penk Ching and Sophia School storytellers.
THE health department is encouraging people to eat vegetables and fruits grown in their backyards and stay away from chemicals used by farmers in producing these in commercial volumes. Parolita Mission, head of the National Nutrition Council warned of the health hazards, chemicals used as pesticides and fertilizers by farmers in growing vegetables and fruits. [...]
Want to live longer? Plant vegetables. To mark Nutrition Month this July, the Department of Health is urging all Filipino households and communities to plant vegetable gardens in their backyards and other open spaces not only to curb malnutrition among children but to stop the high incidence of noncommunicable diseases in the country.
Filipinos’ rice consumption remains high, but their intake of meat and vegetables have gone down over the years, a sign that they cannot afford a more varied and nutritious diet, according to agriculture experts.
While other children were then spending time in school, Rhea Marolina, now 32, was then out helping her mother sell puto around their neighborhood in Mandaue City. Despite missing out on a formal education, Marolina’s experience helping her mother sell puto(rice cake)had made her well equipped to start her vegetable and fruits store in barangay [...]
Metro Manila residents will have to pay more for fish and vegetables as roads leading from vegetable farms in northern Luzon remain mostly impassable while fishponds in Central Luzon have yet to be rehabilitated. According to Agriculture Assistant Secretary Salvador Salacup, the delivery of vegetables from the Cordillera region—where 65 percent of the vegetables sold [...]
