The Department of Physical Education at Lady Shri Ram College For Women organized a session on “Diet and Nutrition” with Dr. Sunita Roy Chowdhury, Chief Dietician, BLK Super Specialty Hospital on 25th January 2018. She has 25+ years of experience as a clinical nutritionist and is founder of ‘Healthy Nudges’, a health site being managed by experienced professionals currently. She talked about various diet requirements according to different age groups, benefits of pulses and importance of detoxification and about how our body requirements varies with the changing environment, thereby emphasizing on the improvement of the health and quality of life through dietary and nutritional assessment, counseling and education.
Focusing on the current status of the awareness of ‘Nutrition’ in the general masses and its aspect in the daily routine, she pointed that it is much less than it should be in India. All the National and International players from the college put up their various question regarding intake of both liquids and solids both during and off competitions. A proper diet schedule was provided by Dr Sunita Chowdhary for the same. During the interactive session, the importance of various sources of carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins, fats, minerals etc. along with their required intake was discussed.
New insights about breaking various food myths and outlook towards need of healthy diet among young sports athletes were also explored. The players were recommended with handy food items to stay well fed and hydrated throughout the day. Effects of excessive use of tea and coffee, detoxification, unhealthy eating habits like binge eating and drinking were also discussed. The talk ended with a discourse on psychological well-being of today’s youth whose attention is driven more towards their weight rather than health which results in feeding the disease rather than preventing it.
By Ishita Sharma
Department of Journalism
LSR
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