Tuesday, July 21, 2009

GOOD NUTRITION THROUGH EDUCATION


GOOD NUTRITION THROUGH EDUCATION



"Proper nutrition in proper education" We all know that health is wealth but it's meaning we can applied it on education


School is the second home for students. We are educated by teachers and its activities. July is the nutrition month with the theme "Wastong nutrisyon kailangan, lifestyle diseases iwasan" the theme discuss the proper nutrition of our body and how we prevent lifestyle diseases.

Lifestyle diseases are diseases that we get in our bad habits like smoking cigar, drinking alcohol and others that we usually do, we are not aware that these lifestyle contribute to the destruction of our body. Drinking alcoholic beverages is one of the lifestyles that contributes to our inproper nutrition, this can result to hypertension, heart attack, stroke, and many more. However these lifestyles diseases can be change by proper nutrition, remove our bad hobbies and shift to good nutrition.


The school implemented some activities to persue proper nutrition some of these are: nutri quiz, cookfest that aims alternative dishes, the mural painting, food festival wherein many delicacies are sold the highlight of the celebration is the nutri jingle and a lot more. through the initiative of the shool and the STEP club I can say that we can achieve "GOOD NUTRITION THROUGH EDUCATION"