DATE: 01/09/2025

EVENT: Seminar for celebrating National Nutrition Week and National Teacher’s Day

THEME / TOPIC: “Nutrition for Working Women”

VENUE: Fortis Hospital, Mohali

PARTICIPANTS: Teachers of different schools of the city

LEARNING OUTCOME: Good nutrition is the foundation of a healthy life

BRIEF DESCRIPTION: (MAX 50 WORDS)

The purpose of the seminar was to spread awareness about the importance of good

nutrition for maintaining health, preventing lifestyle diseases and enhancing productivity.

The host was the head of department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Fortis Dt. Sonia Gandhi who

welcomed all the teachers

There were two Guest Speakers, Mr Mohit Nijhawan who is an entrepreneur of Embryonic

Greens. The company that spreads awareness about the nutritional value of the micro

greens that is the stage of the plant beyond sprouts. The stage of the stem and the two

cotyledons has forty times more nutritional value than the vegetable or fruit grown in that

plant. He displayed the micro greens grown in hydroponics.

The second Guest Speaker was Mr Jayvir Giri who is an Ayurvedic Medicine Producer who

works for Kheti Virasat Mission. Under this mission two hundred people are working to

counsel farmers and consumers to grow local, seasonal and high nutritional millets. He

enlightened us about twelve other millets like Fox Tail, Little, Kodo, Brown top, Barnyard,

Bajra etc. These are also known as positive grains which should be consumed more and the

consumption of wheat and rice should be reduced as these have less fibre and difficult to

digest.

The session was concluded by a small quiz and thanksgiving by the host.

FACILITATED BY: Times of India

REPRESENTED FROM ST. JOHN’S: Gurleen Kaur