PANAJI: ‘Healthify’ – a lecture series on health, exercise and wellness, commenced at Saint Joseph Vaz college on 7th April on the occasion of World Health day.
‘Healthify’ has been jointly-organised by the Department of Physical Education & Sports of Saint Joseph Vaz College, and Saint Joseph Vaz Institute of Education.
The lecture series is the first of its kind and aims to motivate the students to follow a healthy lifestyle, adopt scientific methods of training and to understand about disease and their prevention, states a press release.
The first lecture of the series was titled ‘Healthy Lifestyle: A must for every youth’ and the resource person was Clifton Fernandes, College Director of Physical Education and Sports of Nirmala Institute of Education.
In his lecture, Clifton Fernandes spoke about the meaning of health, dimensions of health, and importance of sleep for the youth of today. He also stressed on the ways to lead a healthy lifestyle. This was followed by an interactive session with the students where in the resource person cleared doubts of the students regarding various issues faced by them in day-to-day life.
Earlier, the programme began with the address of Dr. Maria Fonseca, Principal of St. Joseph Vaz College who emphasised on living a healthy lifestyle and congratulated the department of physical education and sports for coming up with such a unique idea. The resource person was introduced by Infancio Correia, Assistant Physical Education Teacher at Saint Joseph Vaz Institute of Education.
The vote of thanks was proposed by Joaquim Godinho. The programme was compered by Dr Elroy Pinto, College Director of Physical Education and Sports of Saint Joseph Vaz College.
