Thefourth health culture festival of Southeast University was held from April 20th to May 30th. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19 this year, all the activities were conducted online. The pandemic also reminded us to put people's safety and health as the top priority. The theme of this year “reasonable diet is the foundation of strong immunity” highlighted the important role of reasonable diet. Over 10,000 people participated in this event and the following shows a brief review.
Activity 1: Eat and Design
From April 22thto May 6th, the Nutrition Culture Association of Southeast University held a competition in which every team recorded a video documenting how they designed a creative recipe and made it into real dishes.The diet was expected to be healthy and beneficial to strengthen our immunity.From conception to practice, everyone had a better understanding on the importance of healthy diet.
Activity 2: Health Record Online
From April 13thto April 20th, the Graduate Student Association of Public Health School encouraged students to develop healthy life styles in a week from three aspects: diet, exercise and sleep. A total of 334 students shared their daily routine with each other and held more than 1,000 discussions. The Internet has lessened the distance between each other even though they were physically apart, and the students participating in this activity has witnessed everyone’s progress.
Activity 3: Nutrition Day for Chinese Students
On May 17th, the launch ceremony for 2020 National Nutrition week of Nanjing and 5.20 Nutrition Day for Chinese students was broadcasted live online, which was sponsored by the Nanjing Health Commission and organized by the School of Public Health.
Professor Sun Guiju, head of the Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, delivered a speech at the opening ceremony. Prof Sun and two other experts in nutrition, joined the video studio to conduct an online interview on popular topics such as theharm of eating wild animals and so on.
Activity 4: Science Popularization lectures on health
On April 19thand May 22th, Professor Sun Guiju conducted two health-related popularization lectures about reasonable diet and immunity through the online platform. More than 8000 people participated andlearnt how to use Chinese residents' dietary guidelines in daily diet.
Activity 5: Health Knowledge Contest
The Graduate Student Association of Public Health School and that of Ding Jiaqiao Branch jointly organized a nutrition and health knowledge contest, which attracted more than 400 students to participate. Students competed online and learned a lot of knowledge regrading nutrition and COVID-19 prevention.
Activity 6: Protein Record Online
From May 17thto 23th, in order to deepen the concept of reasonable diet, the Graduate Student Association of Public Health School invited over 70 students to display their daily diet so as to help supervise the intake of high-quality protein every day. More than 400 comments were released around relative topics.
As a brand event of Southeast University, the Health Culture Festival plays an essential role on health education. Sorts of wonderful activities around the theme are designed in order to improve health awareness, popularize health knowledge and encourage healthy life styles. After facing the COVID-19 pandemic, a major public health challenge, everyone in the School of Public Health will shoulder more responsibility in the career of building up stronger guardline of public health.