00:00The Healthy Food Environment Bill and the House Bill 8286 or the Iwas Alad, Iwas Sakit Act, matter.
00:08House Bill 8286 recognizes a simple but powerful reality.
00:14Prevention begins long before a patient enters a hospital.
00:18It addresses one of the hidden drivers of hypertension, heart disease, stroke, and kidney disease.
00:25Excess sodium in the food that Filipinos eat every day.
00:28The bill adopts a science-based and stepwise approach to reducing sodium in high-impact food products
00:36such as processed foods, sauces, condiments, and other commonly consumed items.
00:41It allows gradual reformulation so that consumers can adjust and industries can innovate responsibly.
00:49Because this is not about suddenly changing what people eat.
00:53It is about gradually creating a healthier food environment for everyone.
00:59This bill is not about removing freedom of choice.
01:03It is about making the healthy choice the easy choice.
01:08Front-of-back warning labels, responsible food marketing,
01:14clear information for families, smarter food reformulation,
01:18and better protection for consumers should all be considered so that when you buy food after a long day's work,
01:26you are guided, not misled, by what you see on the shelf.
01:31Because prevention does not start in the hospital, prevention starts in the supermarkets, in the kitchen, and in policies.
01:40House Bill 8286 also reminds us that prevention is not only about saving lives.
01:47It is about protecting families for financial hardship.
01:51Government spending for dialysis and chronic diseases treatment continues to rise every year.
01:58Families suffer not only from illness, but from lost income, debt, and years of hardship that could have been prevented.
02:05The cost of prevention is far less than the cost of disease.
02:10Recently, the House Committee on Health approved House Bill 2943,
02:16the Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Act that I principally authored.
02:21This is a powerful step forward because it recognizes that we cannot treat our way out of non-communicable diseases.
02:30We must prevent our way out.
02:33The Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Act tells us to teach Filipinos how to live healthy,
02:40while the Healthy Food Environment Bill tells us to make it possible for Filipino to live healthy.
03:20The Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Act that we cannot treat our way out of non-contained as a living process.
03:20We must have seen the difference in our ways in our country living with a healthy meal.
03:20It is a democràn-minded, a nice family living means,
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