PAC

Pastoral Academic Care (PAC) Focus -Healthy Eating

This week’s Pastoral Academic Care focus is Healthy Eating

Wellbeing Element: You  are What You Eat

Wellbeing  Element: Exercise  and Health

Character  Strength: Perspective

Wellbeing  Fitness Challenge: Step  It Up

Wellbeing  Reflection Activity: Nutritious  Foods (refer to http://learningcurve.com.au

Parent  Wellbeing:  Reflect on:

Reliability  – can people  depend on you?  

Openness  – can people  expect you to deliver  both good and bad news?  Competence – can people depend  on what you produce?

Compassion  – do people  feel you treat  them with consideration  and respect?

Our  students’  generation is  the most bombarded one of all time with questionable advertising about the merits of and social benefits  associated with eating processed fast foods. Unfortunately, many adults are also mesmerised by the lure of junk food.

Processed and refined  foods are more difficult for our bodies to digest and the nutritional value of them lower than that of fresh whole foods. Add the trans-fats,  extra salt and sugar and subtract vitamins, minerals and good fats and you have the precise value of these types  of foods. And this is occurring as people are exercising less, becoming more obese and the early onset of diabetes becoming more prevalent.

Our  young  people are our future and should they continue to devour large quantities of refined foods, as opposed to nutritious fresh whole foods,  then the patterns of deteriorating  physical health will continue to escalate  as is occurring with their mental health.

Eating  healthy is  easy, tasty and  very good for us.  Our bodies are machines which require quality materials to fuel our efforts; it’s little wonder many of our students lack the energy to stay focused in class.

“We  are what  we eat.” Saying