Manila, June 22 -- House Speaker Faustino "Bojie" Dy III on Monday said the latest government data showing a rise in child stunting across the country highlights the urgent need to enact the House-approved National Nutrition Program, a priority reform that seeks to expand nutrition interventions for Filipino children, mothers, and vulnerable sectors.

Dy said the findings of the Department of Science and Technology-Food and Nutrition Research Institute (DOST-FNRI), which showed that child stunting increased to 25.3 percent in 2025, validate the House of Representatives' decision to prioritize House Bill (HB) No. 9466.

"The House prioritized this measure because we recognized that hunger and malnutrition are not only health issues -they ...