News from NUCSER | Nutrition awareness program “Poshan Pakhwada”

The NSS unit of NUCSER conducted a nutrition awareness program “Poshan Pakhwada” on 1st April 2022 to celebrate Nutrition Week. The Pakhwada is one of the key components to sensitize and engage communities, under POSHAN Abhiyaan along with Jan Andolan.

On the fourth anniversary of POSHAN Abhiyaan this year, NUCSER organized Poshan Pakhwada with a focus on addressing nutritional challenges based on Poshan Ke Panch Sutra. Dr. Arun Thejaus K P, Asst. Professor, Centre for Integrative Medicine & Research, Justice K S Hegde Charitable Hospital was the resource person. He spoke on various aspects of nutrition, diet and corrective measures for lifestyle diseases including the importance and correlation between healthy diet choices. He also stressed upon disease prevention and lifestyle improvement through nutritious food. Prof. Dr. Anirban Chakraborty, Director of NUCSER presided over the function.

About 100 students of I B.Sc. and I M.Sc attended the program. Dr. Rama Adiga, NSS Program Officer coordinated the event.