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Wednesday 30 May 2012

Theme 6 (Healthy Lifestyle) - summary


Theme Six – Healthy Living and Lifestyle
summary

As we know, people all over the world have got different eating or exercising habits. Not all of us live a healthy lifestyle, no matter what age we are. There’s even a proverb ‘Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are’. During preparing theme six we had a chance to check the veracity of the saying and compare our lifestyle with our parents’ or friends’ lifestyles.



What we had to do was carry out some sort of physical experiment… ;) Polish Comenius students (and a teacher!) met one sunny but terribly cold day on the school’s pitch and did the Cooper test. All of them wrote down their results and then they compared them with each other. The scores were also posted on the blogs to be commented by the  students from partner countries. It was the first part of the task. The second thing to do was to note everything they ate during three days. It was called ‘Three day diet history’. It was probably the most demanding task they’ve ever had. All the students and their families were recording the food which was eaten by them during a period of three days! Every breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper, snack… even every single crisp! Nothing was hidden ;) What is more, everything was published on the Internet on their blogs! Students posted their eating habits notes and added a few pictures of (scrumptiously looking ;) )food.
When this part of the task was completed the students were made to fill in a survey. They had to answer a basic general knowledge test on healthy living. It wasn’t a piece of cake because they had to be honest. And some of the questions might have been quite awkward to sweet teeth or couch potatoes… ;)





At the end the Comenius people and their parents prepared their own ‘health reports’. That way they could compare their Cooper test results, their physical condition or their eating habits with their parents, friends and other members of the family. The comparison may have been surprising  for some  and pretty obvious for the rest of them. But one thing is common for everyone. We definitely had lots of fun and expanded our knowledge about ourselves. Even if it required more than just a little effort ;) 

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