THE National Nutrition Commission (NNC) identified technology and fast food as a contributor to being obese.
National Nutrition Council Cordillera program coordinator Rita Papey said with advent of technology, though people may be more productive, technology also tends to lessen the active lifestyle leading to lesser movement.
“Technology is such that it makes us accomplish things without moving whereas before you need to walk a mile to tell somebody that you need to come to the house but now, all you need to do is text them and a hundred people would come,” Papey said.
The nutrition coordinator also cited fast food consumed is mostly instant food.
“It’s all being obesogenic even in the offices, an employee who is just sitting and accomplishes a lot of things as compared to before when an employee had many movements even typing which is not present anymore. I think development in itself is making life more and more comfortable which leads to being more obesogenic,” Papey added.
NNC is also trying to prevent early death because of these contributory factors which makes the average life expectancy, shorter.
Recently, 56 percent of Cordillerans have been found to be overweight or obese based on the study made by the Regional Nutrition Committee in cooperation with the Benguet State University (BSU).
Based on the 2018 prevalence of malnutrition among under five children or from zero to fifty nine months old LGU data coming from Operation Timbang Plus, CAR recorded 2.41 percent of overweight and obesity incidents.
“Even the undernutrition and over nutrition among children nowadays, technology adds to this because the children are just sitting even the maids, the children now does not play physically, they play mobile legends,” Papey added.