The objective of the workshop was to raise awareness and promote healthy eating as an influential factor in the academic performance of ULS students.

With an excellent call, students from the University of La Serena were able to learn how healthy eating helps improve academic performance, thanks to the joint work between the PACE Program and the ULS Student Health Department, through the workshop called “ Nutrineuron”.

The objective of the workshop was to raise awareness and promote healthy eating as an influential factor in the academic performance of students at the institution.

For the student Natalia Santander, from the Pedagogy in Early Childhood Education program, the experience was very interesting, “I have always heard how everyone talks that eating properly is the right thing to do, to maintain your health and healthy body; But I never thought that keeping your diet in order and maintaining schedules was so important for concentration, staying awake or things as simple as adding more legumes to your diet can help your performance in college.”

On the other hand, Ginett Pallero, a Nursing student, expressed that “our mothers always tell us that certain foods are better than others, but having a nutritionist explain, in detail, why a certain food helps in the study is completely different.” “It opened my mind and seeing food from another perspective, as well as how important it is to organize our meal schedules.”

The nutritionist of the Department. of ULS Student Health (attached to the DGAE), Angélica Henríquez, emphasized that by carrying out this workshop the aim was to create awareness of food as an influential factor in the academic performance of students, at different stages of life. “We show that if we eat properly, including certain foods and/or nutrients, reducing the intake of others and establishing good eating schedules, we can take advantage of our academic potential and that this, in turn, can last a lifetime. "If there is habit formation," the professional clarified.

Some of the topics addressed in the workshop were: generating awareness and promoting healthy eating, promoting healthy habits that last throughout life, promoting the consumption of certain foods in relation to their cognitive benefits. , among other.

Written by Daniel Aguayo, PACE ULS Program