Wellbeing
Leader: Geenah Loughran
GEM CHAT
A GEM Chat consists of 2-5 minute activities/conversations that you can have individually or as a whole family, at different points throughout the day (whenever works best for you). Each newsletter will provide a different chat prompt. Please see below this week's chat:
The Imperfects Podcast
Perfectly Imperfect
THow does food affect our mood? Does diet actually impact our mental health? What is a gut micro-biome, and can we still eat a few chips without ruining it?In this Academy of Imperfection episode, we are joined one of the worlds leading experts on the relationship between what we eat, and how it effects our mental health, Professor Felice Jacka.
And if can we trust anyone to get to the bottom of the vagus nerve ‘highway’; our hippocampus shrinking; our mitochondrial reaction to ultra-processed foods (don’t worry we didn’t know these words before either) – it’s her.
There was a lot to ‘digest’ in this chat (so to speak), but thankfully, there is so much we can do, by making informed choices about what we put in our bodies, to improve our mental health.
See below for links & research mentioned in this episode, information on Felice and her work and extra resources:
Things to read
The Food and Mood centre – https://bit.ly/3xdmkjw. Felice’s published research – https://deakin.au/3VWggpb, Felice’s shorter articles – https://bit.ly/3RvfeO2.
Felice’s recent research in Molecular Psychiatry Review –https://go.nature.com/3xozlqq.
SMILEs trial – https://bit.ly/3KLjGEL. Kevin Hall’s study on Ultra-Processed food – https://bit.ly/3z7akjY.
Brain Changer, Felice Jacka, https://bit.ly/3xpYGjJ, There’s a Zoo in my Poo, Felice Jack & Rob Craw https://bit.ly/3RrHxNd.
To watch this full episode on YouTube, follow this link: https://bit.ly/4dMUP0l
PBIS
Students at St Patrick’s are always showing how they can be kind. Over the past two weeks, the blitz was ‘Showing kindness to others’
The definition of KINDNESS is:
‘The quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate’.
Kindness is one of our school’s expectations - When we are showing kindness, we are treating others how YOU want to be treated.
Here are some examples of how you can show kindness:
At St Patrick’s, the teachers encourage and support every student to show kindness to others.
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