SONA, Straight Path Towards Awareness

       This year's State of the Nation Address of our Honorable President Benigno S. Aquino III served as communication between him and his countrymen, wherein he stated his excellency within four (4) years of his administration. As a student, I should know the progress and developments of our country. And through this SONA, I was able to be aware of our nation's improvements. It awakened my realization and corrected my speculations that nothing good is happening in his administration. It's a great mistake.

        Reading his speech, word by word brought me pleasure and contentment. Pleasure, for I know our country is progressing and improving continuously; and contentment for his excellency. It is also good to know that one of his achievements governed the youth, through providing scholarships to all levels of education. Most of the programs he executed were in lined with education. Few of them were as follows: solving the problem of insufficient number of textbooks, chairs and classrooms; answering the very expensive cost of each textbook by lowering the designated price; and enduring these programs as time goes by. For the agriculture sector, he said that we are already exporting rice to the worldwide market, not like before that we are importing thousand tons of rice to eat with; faster crop productions and higher income for farmers and producers. For the fishermen, he brought the cold storage facility which helps  preserving of fish's freshness. For our health status, he implemented the Phil-health for every Filipinos and the budget for medical infrastructures and for better health services. Other concerns of his SONA were concentrated on the calamities, housing programs, protection programs, SSS insurances, and many, many, many more.

         Through this SONA, I hope Filipinos knew the developments of our country and realize that we can still stand by our feet behind hindrances that we are facing with.

SINGLE OBSTRUCTION: VARIOUS SOLUTIONS

"There are countless solutions for every single obstruction"

    Hunger and malnutrition are partners-in-crime. Both of them contributes bad effects in different aspects of our lives: physical, mental, intellectual, social, spiritual, and emotional. But, for every problem, expect various solutions.

    Hunger is a chronic undernourishment or outright starvation. It greatly influences the continuing high rate of malnourished cases. It affects hundreds of millions of individuals. The world produces enough food to feed its entire societies, but the truth that it is not distributed equally among rich and poor or through nationwide boundaries. Moreover, environmental factors including drought, famine and virulent diseases, and likewise man-made or artificial factors such as war, can produce massive starvation.

      Malnutrition is a dietary condition caused by lack of healthy foods or excessive intake of unhealthy foods in the diet. It is characterized by wide group of health problems comprising of weight loss, stunted growth, and weakened resistance to infections and diseases that can lead to severe ailment or worst, to death. Malnutrition is the nearest possible result of hunger. Individuals suffering from hunger due to food shortage are mostly malnourished through the absence of nutrients from the food undertaking hunger. Furthermore, not all excesses are good. Over-nutrition, also known as obesity, increases the high risks of having diabetes, heart diseases, arthritis and other more.

     On this rare kinds of problems, the best solution is prevention. The best prevention we can make is to eat healthy foods such as vegetables and fruits to be harvested in our backyards. But, first to do is to establish a simple vegetable garden for future uses. This will lessen the hindrances of food shortage as well as undernourishment. Another simple way to avoid these problems is to have and maintain the proper diet. Proper diet helps in balancing the nutrient intake of the body. In addition, proper health education will also contribute higher progress in prevention of hunger and malnutrition. If somebody will be high health educated person, he will know how to manage himself properly and definitely away from high risks of food shortage and undernourishment.