Wastong Nutrisyon Kailangan, Lifestyle Diseases Iwasan

Every time that July comes, our school ISNHS (Ilocos Sur National High School) celebrates the nutrition month. There are a lot of competitions that are held like the foodfest, cookfest, poster and slogan making, oration, jingle and many more. And different year levels and sections are joining. Of course in a competition there is always a winner and a loser. During the foodfest, we, the Maxwell students won the 2^nd position. This event was sponsored by the TLE Department and with the cooperation of the STEP Club officers, with the theme “Wastong Nutrisyon Kailangan, Lifestyle Diseases Iwasan.”

With the theme itself, we can immediately get the thought of it. They say “Health is wealth,” but what does it mean? Nowadays many of us teenagers are using drugs, drinking alcoholic beverages and smoking. But they are not aware of what it can give to their health, some maybe aware of it but still they want to do it or try it. Some that are used to do it is reasoning that it’s their way to forget their problems, to be rebel, and it makes them braver. But they are forgetting that they are starting to destroy their lives and soon they will be addicted on it and it will be hard for them to remove it because it’s in their daily living. As they do these daily, they are killing their selves softly.

But, there is a big but of course, if we avoid these Lifestyle diseases, those possibilities may change. Just keep ourselves busy in doing something like having a sport, joining school activities, programs and seminars, having a good bonding with our family and friends and there’s a lot more in doing these, we should be healthy and strong, so we should eat nutritious foods like the go, grow and glow foods and having a balanced diet. Here, we can get the supplement needed by our body like the different vitamins, protein, calcium, carbohydrate, phosphorous and many more.

There are many ways to become healthy and avoid those lifestyle diseases but I think the best way to become a healthy person is in our hand, the way how we manage our self.