Healthy Food Means a Better Life: Food Demonstration at the Family Life and Wellness Institute
Posted on February 2, 2013 by monchot
Last December 11, the Family Life and Wellness Institute (FLWI) in De La Salle Zobel Santiago School held a food demonstration on healthy cooking.
After a short prayer, we were welcomed by the head of FLWI Dra. Patricia Sison, a renowned psychologist and an advocate of healthy vegetarian living. She gave the background of the institution, emphasized on what the institution does today, and talked about how food affects the mind and body.
After her short talk, I began my food demonstration on healthy raw desserts and snacks. The menu included a watermelon and feta cheese salad, a gluten free granola bar, and a strawberry mango smoothie. I was pleased to see that the audience received it very well. Dra. Sison also gave her food demonstration on how to make a healthy fruit and vegetable salad, as well as several different types of raw and healthy sandwiches.
The food demonstration was a great success, and it gives me hope that we will be able to encourage more people to become engaged in healthy diets. It is important especially for the youth to understand that the food we eat greatly contributes to how we feel and how we interact with the people around us. A healthy diet results not just in physical wellness but in a better personal attitude and even enhanced family relationships. In short, healthy food means a better life.
Posted on February 2, 2013 by monchot
Last December 11, the Family Life and Wellness Institute (FLWI) in De La Salle Zobel Santiago School held a food demonstration on healthy cooking.
After a short prayer, we were welcomed by the head of FLWI Dra. Patricia Sison, a renowned psychologist and an advocate of healthy vegetarian living. She gave the background of the institution, emphasized on what the institution does today, and talked about how food affects the mind and body.
After her short talk, I began my food demonstration on healthy raw desserts and snacks. The menu included a watermelon and feta cheese salad, a gluten free granola bar, and a strawberry mango smoothie. I was pleased to see that the audience received it very well. Dra. Sison also gave her food demonstration on how to make a healthy fruit and vegetable salad, as well as several different types of raw and healthy sandwiches.
The food demonstration was a great success, and it gives me hope that we will be able to encourage more people to become engaged in healthy diets. It is important especially for the youth to understand that the food we eat greatly contributes to how we feel and how we interact with the people around us. A healthy diet results not just in physical wellness but in a better personal attitude and even enhanced family relationships. In short, healthy food means a better life.
Help for poor children with autism
By Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 18:50:00 02/14/2010
Filed Under: Health, Education
EARLY intervention and proper training can help make people with autism independent and even productive individuals. But experts say, since cases of autism are highly individualized, there is no one-size-fits-all training. Getting the appropriate intervention can be costly, especially when efforts to address autism are fragmented.
So what happens to children with autism whose parents cannot afford the price of any intervention?
This is a question the Autism Spectrum Disorders Youth in Transition Center (ASDs-YIT) wants to address for people with autism. Our plan, once we get the families who can afford the training, is to take in the poor families,? said Denese Machan-Dumol, an autism expert based in Canada who initiated the local ASDs-YIT. She spoke at a recent seminar on approaches and strategies for people with autism at the De la Salle Zobel (DLSZ) School in Alabang.
Dumol said the ASDs-YIT would be a ?one-stop-shop? that would cater to the needs of people with autism and guide their parents.
The center will offer consultations and assessments of children with autism, as well as training for parents, teachers and nurses. Currently located at the Familiaris Counseling Center in Muntinlupa City, the ASDs-YIT will soon move permanently to the Family Life Wellness Institute (FLWI) on the DLSZ campus. Dumol said her consultation fees would go to the center.
Her idea became the ASDs-YIT project after she met psychologist Lucille Montes, owner of the Familiaris Counseling Center, and psychology professor and gestalt family and couple therapist Patricia Sison, executive director of Family Life Wellness Institute (FLWI). Some of Montes? patients were children with autism while the FLWI had been planning a program on autism since it opened last year.
Read more http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/learning/view/20100214-253172/Help-for-poor-children-with-autism
By Edson C. Tandoc Jr.
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 18:50:00 02/14/2010
Filed Under: Health, Education
EARLY intervention and proper training can help make people with autism independent and even productive individuals. But experts say, since cases of autism are highly individualized, there is no one-size-fits-all training. Getting the appropriate intervention can be costly, especially when efforts to address autism are fragmented.
So what happens to children with autism whose parents cannot afford the price of any intervention?
This is a question the Autism Spectrum Disorders Youth in Transition Center (ASDs-YIT) wants to address for people with autism. Our plan, once we get the families who can afford the training, is to take in the poor families,? said Denese Machan-Dumol, an autism expert based in Canada who initiated the local ASDs-YIT. She spoke at a recent seminar on approaches and strategies for people with autism at the De la Salle Zobel (DLSZ) School in Alabang.
Dumol said the ASDs-YIT would be a ?one-stop-shop? that would cater to the needs of people with autism and guide their parents.
The center will offer consultations and assessments of children with autism, as well as training for parents, teachers and nurses. Currently located at the Familiaris Counseling Center in Muntinlupa City, the ASDs-YIT will soon move permanently to the Family Life Wellness Institute (FLWI) on the DLSZ campus. Dumol said her consultation fees would go to the center.
Her idea became the ASDs-YIT project after she met psychologist Lucille Montes, owner of the Familiaris Counseling Center, and psychology professor and gestalt family and couple therapist Patricia Sison, executive director of Family Life Wellness Institute (FLWI). Some of Montes? patients were children with autism while the FLWI had been planning a program on autism since it opened last year.
Read more http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/learning/view/20100214-253172/Help-for-poor-children-with-autism