Monday, July 20, 2009

"Beat the lifestyle diseases with the right nutriton "

"Wastong nutrisyon kailangan, Lifestyle diseases iwasan" was this years theme for celebrating July as the Nutrition Month. Ilocos Sur National High School celebrated the Nutrition Month with different activities and contests such as Nutri Quiz, Nutri jingle, Cookfest, Food festival, Poster slogan, Cheerdance, Essay, Oration. Different activities and contest were done throughout the month of July. Winners of the different contest of school level will represent ISNHS in city level. It aims to inform and enhance the skills and talents of students in joining this activities. It also tells us that we need right nutrition in fighting this lifestyle diseases.

Studies show that lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension affect people ages from 20 to 40. It is so alarming that the normal lifespan of people is getting younger. Such lifestyle diseases could be obtain from wrong lifestyle habits like eating too much fats and sweets. Right nutrition including balanced diet, good lifestyle, enough rest, sleep and exercise is needed by our immune system to make it stronger to fight the virus and bacteria from entering our body that causes this lifestyle diseases.

It is not only the lifestyle diseases that we can prevent from having good nutrition but also the in season diseases such as colds, cough, fever, typhoid, and flu.

Let us have and maintain right nutrition and surely we will beat the lifestyle diseases, and we'll have a healthy body.