The Department of Physical Education and Sports of St. Joseph Vaz Institute of Education and St. Joseph Vaz College organized Healthify-A lecture series on Health, Exercise and Wellness for the students of D.EL.Ed and B.S.C. The lecture series is the first of its kind organized at college level. The aim of the lecture series is to motivate the students to follow a healthy lifestyle through Nutrition and Balanced Diet and to make science the most important thing while following sports and physical education and to make them understand about diseases and its prevention.
The Fourth lecture of the series was on the topic Health and Nutrition. The Resource Person for the function was Mr. Ajinkya Kudtarkar, College Director of Physical Education and Sports at Damodar College of Commerce Margao. The session begun at 10 am and Dr. Maria Fonseca Principal of St. Joseph Vaz College Cortalim welcomed the Resource Person and addressed the gathering. Dr.Fr. Bolmax Perreira welcomed the Resource Person Mr. Kudtarkar by handing over a pot of flowers. Sharrif Ansari from the S.Y.B.Sc took the privilege of introducing the resource person. Approximately 70 students from D.El.Ed attended the lecture and 34 students from the bsc section were a part of the lecture. Besides the students the premise also witnessed a significant number of staff members which included both Teaching and Non-Teaching, only to add on to the interest created by the resource person through his knowledgeable words.
In his lecture Mr.Kudtarkar spoke about nutrition and balanced diet and the emphasis of the two similar yet different topics. He further interacted with the students and it was evident that many of them abstained from following a balanced diet for various reasons which wasn’t surprising to the listeners. Mr. Kudtarkar broke down the complexity of nutrition and diet and the students eventually learnt that it was simple enough for them to adopt these habits only if someone had to acquaint them to such worthy information prior. But it is said its better late than never! Besides various verbal responses the Resource person was glad to mention that the best type of response he received was the patient and active listening by the students throughout the session. Students were glad to have a break from their routine lecturers and partake in this the fourth lecture series organized by St. Joseph Vaz college. Eventually after about one and a half hour of the lecture Mr. Kudtarkar ended up his words of wisdom by clearing the queries of the students.
On behalf of the St Joseph Vaz Institute Dr. Melwin Dsouza expressed the Management’s Gratitude by handing over a token of love and appreciation to the honorable Resource Person of the occasion. Mr. Savio Sequeira from Fy D.El.Ed proposed the vote of thanks and the resource person received a round of applause from the participants.