TO:	The Secretary of Health
	The Presidential Executive Assistant
	The Chairman, National Nutrition Council

WHEREAS, a thorough review of the role of the National Nutrition Council in the formulation, integration and coordination of the Philippine Nutrition Program has indicated an urgent need for the National Nutrition Council to have greater flexibility and autonomy in the discharge of its assigned functions embodied under Presidential Decree No. 491, dated June 25, 1974.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, do hereby amend Letter of Implementation No. 37, dated December 11, 1975 issued by this Office in consonance with Presidential Decree No. 830, by placing the National Nutrition Council-directly under the Office of the President.

Done in the City of Manila, this 31st day of August, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-six.