Invited by Staff Apartment Service Center, Wang Ninglin, a specialist on Food and Nutrition from Zhejiang Business College, gave a special lecture titled “Food and Nutrition- What you want to know”at 7 p.m. on November 14th. As the first chapter of “Fabulous after 8 Hours” series organized by Staff Apartment, this lecture has drawn enthusiastic responses from faculty and students.

    Ms. Wang gave the lecture from aspects of “finding a balance between eating and moving, maintaining a healthy weight”, “dairy and beans”, “eating food with less fat, salt and sugar, and limiting alcohol”, “food safety”, etc. She also pointed out the problem of unbalanced diet. Nutritional imbalance is very common nowadays. It is mainly characterized by the increasing rates of various chronic diseases, such as obesity, hyper blood pressure, diabetes, coronary heart diseases, etc. More and more young people tend to have this problem. Therefore, we should learn to develop a healthy and balanced eating habit.

    In addition, the Staff Apartment Service Center prepared fresh steaming eight-treasure porridge and fresh fruits for all the faculty and students. They enjoyed delicious food, and went through a sweet and happy night. Many said they had learnt a lot of knowledge about food and nutrition from this lecture, and they would look forward to more chapters of the “Fabulous After 8 Hours”series.