00:00One in three Filipino households experience food insecurity, or a lack of food,
00:07according to the National Nutrition Council, or NNC.
00:12If there is a lack of food, it results in malnutrition.
00:17According to Assistant Secretary Azucena Dayanghirang,
00:21malnutrition leads to a decrease in intelligence quotient, or IQ, and obesity.
00:29According to the World Bank,
00:31only up to 52% of the total potential of Filipinos born today
00:37is achieved due to a lack of nutrition.
00:41To address the problem, the government and various groups
00:46from the private sector launched the program, Let's Eat, Philippines.
00:50If it doesn't end completely,
00:52the goal is to lower the number of people starving in the country
00:57and increase the amount of nutrition for children who are being breastfed and newborns.
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