Philippines the nationwide nutrition survey conducted by the Food and Nutrition Research Institute of the Department of Science and Technology (FNRI-DOST) in 1993 showed that 14 percent of Filipinos 20 years old and above are overweight‚ while 2.6 percent are obese. Translated in absolute figures‚ there are 5.7 million Filipino adults who were either overweight or obese in 1993‚ an increase of 63 percent or 2.2 million compared to 3.5 million in 1987‚ the FNRI survey further noted. In 1998‚ using the
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The Good Things about Filipinos Amidst all the negative things hurled to us‚ Filipinos‚ by peoples from various and distant lands (or even by our own blood-brothers)‚ it will never be denied that we have good characteristics that we can be proud of. We even have attitudes that we are the only ones who have. These good things about us are those that compensate for the almost indelible negative things that we have. And majority of them are obviously the product of being imprisoned for more than
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Félix Resurrección Hidalgo y Padilla (21 February 1855 - 13 March 1913) was a Filipino artist. He is acknowledged as one of the great Filipino painters of the late 19th century‚ and is significant in Philippine history for having been an acquaintance and inspiration for members of the Philippine reform movement which included José Rizal‚ Marcelo del Pilar‚ Mariano Ponce and Graciano López Jaena‚ although he neither involved himself directly in that movement‚ nor later associate himself with the First
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Philippines) focuses on the different literary works of various Filipino writers throughout the Philippine islands. These works helped shaped Filipino culture‚ thus‚ it is important that as Filipinos‚ we learn to appreciate our own literature and our culture in order to have a better understanding of our people and nation‚ in general. COURSE GOALS The course ultimately aims to enable you to appreciate the breadth and depth of Filipino literature. It also aims to deepen your understanding of the
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that nature failed to give. One of these things is culture. According to the book “Anthropology: The Human Challenge”‚ culture is “a society’s shared and socially transmitted ideas‚ values and perceptions‚ which are used to make sense of experience and generate behaviour and are reflected in that behaviour.” To simplify‚ culture is the customs‚ arts‚ social institutions‚ and achievements of a particular nation‚ people‚ or other social group. (Culture) How can we say that a certain trait is a cultural
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THE FILIPINO REVOLTS AGAINST SPAIN Filipino’s love Freedom! Filipino’s rebelled! Unhappy that’s what I feel like the Filipino’s feeling when they are under the Spaniards. When I read again this chapter‚ I feel I’m one of them I’m in that time and place when the revolt against Spain is held. Fighting too. This is the causes of Revolts: 1. Love for Freedom and Independence 2. Spanish encomendors abuses 3. Tribute (Residence tax) 4. Forced Labor (Polo) 5. Land Grabbing by the friars 6. Basi
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I. Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio II. SYNOPSIS/ SUMMARY Awiyao and Lumnay were husband and wife for seven years‚ but now the husband has to marry another woman‚ Madulimay‚ because Lumnay was not able to give him a child. (In their culture in the mountains during those times‚ having a child to follow after the husband’s name was a must.) On the night of the wedding‚ Awiyao goes to his and Lumnay’s house to personally invite her to the traditional wedding dance. However‚
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Values In different region of the world people have different beliefs that guide and shape the way they live their life. A value is an important and life lasting beliefs or ideals shared by people of the same culture about what is good or bad‚ and what is desirable or undesirable. What may seem valuable to one person may not be the same as to the next person‚ cultures differ in many ways and those values that shapes our culture is also the root of our lifestyle. Throughout our lives
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Poverty and the Filipino Drug Mules Introduction Among the most admired Filipinos today are the Overseas Filipino Workers or OFWs. They have been dubbed as New Heroes or Bagong Bayani by no less than the late Corazon “Cory” Aquino because of the way they willingly leave their families and the comforts of home to pursue high-earning jobs abroad. An estimated 8.2 to 11 million Filipinos or 11% of the total Filipino population work in other countries to support their families and to make their dreams
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The Filipino Nurses Code of Ethics Board of Nursing In the formulation of the Code of Ethics for Registered Nurses‚ the Code of Good Governance for the Professions in the Philippines was utilized as the principal basis. Therefore: All the principles under the said Code were adopted and integrated into the Code of Ethics as they apply to the nursing profession. ARTICLE I - PREAMBLE SECTION 1. Health is a fundamental right of every individual. The Filipino registered nurse‚ believing in
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