Promoting the benefits of a healthy breakfast
Shaking up your wake up are ND Food, Nutrition and Health students Laura Shepherd, Chloe Faulkner, Joanna Campbell, and Laura Burton.
AS part of the 2012 Farmhouse Breakfast campaign students from Loughry Campus, on the National Diploma in Food, Nutrition & Health have been advising peers, friends and family of the benefits of a healthy breakfast.
The practical nature of their course means students choose an annual Health Promotion campaign. They produce eye catching displays, leaflets and consumer surveys and formulate meal plans based on nutritional guidelines. To promote the Farmhouse Breakfast campaign they chose the most important meal of the day – the meal that provides 20-35% of an individual’s daily energy requirements.
Breakfast is the perfect time to load up on carbohydrates from cereals and breads as well as having the first fruit of your essential ‘five-a-day’. The Loughry students were keen to extol some of the lesser known facts to the public, including:
Breakfast eaters are generally slimmer.
Breakfast can help boost concentration levels and enhance mental well-being.
Breakfast eaters suffer less from depression and are less prone to stress than breakfast ‘skippers’.
These students are looking forward to exciting careers in food. Some will design the healthy new foods of the future. If this type of job interests you, come along to Loughry’s next Open Evening on Thursday 23 August. See www.cafre.ac.uk for full details.
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