To provide adequate knowledge and skills necessary for critical thinking regarding diet and health so the individual can make healthy food choices from an increasingly complex food supply.To create positive attitudes toward good nutrition and physical activity and provide motivation for improved nutrition and lifestyle practices conducive to promoting and maintaining the best attainable level of wellness for an individual.It may reduce the risk of cognitive decline in older adults, and is effective in helping to manage many chronic diseases. Regular physical activity sustains the ability of older adults to live independently, and benefits individuals with arthritis and those with depression and anxiety.
In recognition of the importance of physical activity on health and the prevention of disease, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommend being physically active each day. Nutrition education should include information on physical activity in addition to nutrition. Providers are encouraged to use existing nutrition education resources from the Basic Food Nutrition Education Program, Washington State University Cooperative Extension, Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, or Department of Health’s 5-a-Day Program. Nutrition services providers must conduct nutrition education activities, consistent with the goals and content described below, at a minimum of two times per calendar year at each site. It is an integral part of providing nutrition services to older persons. Nutrition education can be defined as any set of learning experiences designed to facilitate the voluntary adoption of eating and other nutrition-related behaviors conducive to health and well-being. Eighty-seven percent of older Americans have one or more chronic diseases that can be improved by nutrition therapy, including cancer, chronic lung disease, heart disease, dementia, diabetes mellitus, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, osteoporosis, obesity and overweight, and failure to thrive (Draft Nutrition Screening Initiative Policy Statement: Nutrition: Proven Effective in Managing Chronic Disease in Older Americans.)
With the new mandate, the university faces the challenges of the 21st century by continuously exercising its distinctive leadership in higher education and development.įrom the education of ordinary Filipinos under Americans at the time of UP President Bartlett to its journey onto another century under the stewardship of President Danilo Lardizabal Concepcion, the university has produced at least 37 National Scientists at least 39 National Artists 7 out of the 16 Presidents of the Republic 13 Chief Justices of the Supreme Court at least 15,000 doctors 8,000 lawyers 15,000 engineers 23,000 teachers and hundreds of thousands of graduates in other academic fields.Good nutrition prolongs independence by maintaining physical strength, mobility, endurance, hearing, vision, and cognitive abilities. Efforts for the enactment of a new UP Charter go back to the term of UP President Edgardo Angara and were further studied during the term of UP President Jose Abueva. On April 29, 2008, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo signed the new UP Charter or Republic Act 9500. From one campus in Manila, it now has eight constituent universities in 17 campuses all over the country it has 258 undergraduate programs and 438 graduate programs with students from almost every region in the country.
Much has changed in UP over the past 100 years.
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