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 ==[[Sorsogon News]]==
-'''Refrain eating fatty, salty, and sweet foods this holiday season - local health office'''
+'''Feature Story: Pili shells, not just something to crack, now it's Bicol’s best fashion jewelry export'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=69113
+*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=69447
-*Wednesday, December 21, 2011
+*Sunday, December 25, 2011
 :by  Irma A. Guhi
-SORSOGON CITY, Dec 21 (PIA) -- With the holiday season, people are more likely to take in too much of fatty, salty, and sweet foods, which are bad for the health, said Dr. Edgar Garcia, provincial health officer here said.
+SORSOGON CITY, Dec 25 (PIA) -- “Wearing the pili shell necklace whenever I attend formal occasions with our native attire has gained some fashion statement in this "eco-conscious world" we are in now today. It also gives us a sense of pride as a Bicolano,” Dr. Ma. Teresa V. Destura, assistant department head of the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA) said during an interview.
-It is during this season that the provincial health office registers an alarming increase in non-communicable diseases.
+“Almost in all occasions now here and especially in Bicol, the pili shell necklace has exchanged the usual flower corsage we use to honor our guests.”
-Garcia said that people should be aware of the effects of consuming fatty, salty, and sweet foods that if cumulatively consumed, may affect the heart, blood pressure, and blood sugar that will ultimately cause some health problems.
+"The pili shell has gained an entrance in the global market now and has provided the best opportunities for women in the barangays to make use of the shell with more economic returns. Before, these were only used to become the alternative for firewood used in cooking or just thrown away if their volume becomes so much," Destura expressed.
-The rainy season had also resulted in the increase of people, especially children, catching colds.
+In the just concluded 178th Provincial Agricultural and Fisheries Council (PAFC) meeting held here last week at the PAFC- Livelihood Technology Training Center (LTTC), Godofredo D. Ditan PAFC chair thanked the Department of Agriculture (DA) ROV through its regional executive director, Dr. Jose Dayao, for the formal turn-over of five sets of pili shellcraft production equipment to five recipient organizations.
-“We should enhance our immune system by eating more fruits, vegetables, and by drinking lots of juice and water," Garcia explained.
+“We have seen how the pili shells evolved in terms of its usage and now DA has seen a very big potential in the pili shell craft industy. These equipment will make pili shell craft production here in the province more easy as this will lessen the time for making the shells into the desired designs. The usual way they did it is manual and tedious. With this equipment, production of pili shell craft will be faster and refined in terms of its craftsmanship as right polishing is done by the machine,” Dayao said.
-Garcia also reminds families to be more aware in food preparation where children will be conscious of consuming only healthy foods and avoid junk foods that are high in salt, additives, and preservatives.
+“Volume in production will also be enhanced as the equipment can produce the desired pieces immediately,” he said.
-He also reminded the public to refrain from getting wet since the erratic weather now the province has been experiencing for the past two months has made everyone susceptible to water and air borne diseases.
+Sorsogon is considered as Bicols' number two producer of pili in the region, and the shell has been creatively produced by the different women organization here as fashion jewelry and as add on local material that goes with beautifully crafted home products displayed in malls specially in tiangges.
-“Admitted here now here in the hospital are cases of people with high fever, colds that may lead to pneumonia if not properly treated,” Garcia explained.
+"Pili fashion jewelries-making here has opened a livelihood opportunity, it’s very saleable as it is cheap but so artistically made and usually worn now even with casual attire, with office uniform, and for women who would like to don a little bit of elan in their daily wear," Destura also explained.
-The provincial office through its Health Education Management System (HEMS) has been conducting information drives regularly in their barangay health clinics , municipal and district hospitals so that health consciousness should be one of the best awareness to mitigate health problems.
+In the just concluded 3rd Regional Pili Congress held in Legaspi last year, one of the best sellers was the necklaces made out of the pili shell and according to Dr. Teresa V. Destura, the women organization here through the Rural Improvement Club was the regular distributor of these products.
-Fliers and information materials have also been distributed in health centers where mothers are provided interpersonal education especially those who are under the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) who regularly visit health center.
+Looking into the viability of the use of the pili shell, the pili shell craft has now entered the market of innovative fashion jewelries as one of the best exportable biodegradable products.
-"The provincial office as part of the holiday season’scelebration IEC has been intensified and regular reminders to the public health tips especially these Christmas and New Year when consuming food as a culture of the Filipinos is a way of celebrating the season and where abundance of food served in our table has been part of our tradition,let us celebrate it in more of a healthy way," Garcia reiterated. (MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon)
+Dayao also said that the ingenuity of the peopleand specially women in the barangays using pili into different fashion jewelries has now gained some global recognition based on the different demand for this product as reported by the Department of Trade Industry based on their exhibits in tiangge, malls, and on several activities in the national exhibits popularizing pili as the high value crop of the Bicol region.
+Dayao expressed that DA has thought of this intervention to facilitate the production of shell craft in the province now becoming a home-based agri-entrepreneuer business.
+The formal turn-over was spearheaded by RED Dayao assisted by PAFC chair Ditan, Rose M. Imperial, High Value Crop DA reg’l. coordinator, RAFC chair Alfredo Rillo, and Dr. Ma. Teresa V. Destura.
+"Hopefully with these equipment, the pili shell craft industry will become one of Sorsogon's women source of livelihood and will also be a sustainable source of income. From just being used as firewood, the pili shell now is more an export product," Destura said.(MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon)
 ==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==