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Ludhiana: PAU holds nutrition awareness camp at Halwara Air Force Station
The camp was to raise awareness about good nutrition and healthy life style practices, and encourage the women to prevent and manage metabolic disorders
The diet counselling cell of the department of food and nutrition, College of Community Science, Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), in collaboration with Air Force Families Welfare Association (AFFWA), Halwara organized a two-day camp on nutrition awareness for the “Sanginis” of AFFWA. The main focus of the camp was to raise awareness about good nutrition and healthy life style practices, and encourage the women to prevent and manage metabolic disorders.
Kiranjot Sidhu, dean, College of Community Science, congratulated the faculty and students of the department for their initiative to work for the nutrition and health well-being of the families of air force personnel. She further appreciated the effective planning and execution of the camp to motivate the participated women for adoption of positive and sustainable healthy lifestyle practices.
Kiran Grover, head, department of food and nutrition, informed that the prime focus of the camp was to help the women get rid of their undesirable food practices, which were often based on lack of knowledge, traditions and taboos or poor understanding of relationship between diet and health. She further said that nutritional well-being can be improved by adopting nutritious, balanced and diversified diets. She shared that such consistent community-based nutrition education interventions can go a long way in improved health outcomes and behaviour modifications.
The body weight and height were measured to assess the Body Mass Index (BMI). Besides, Body Composition Analysis (BCA) was done and based upon analysis of the reports, nutrition counselling was imparted individually to the participants. The students also put up a display on metabolic disorders which are caused by lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating and faulty lifestyle practice, leading to overweight, obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases.
