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It’s not just that we eat right at LOL English Diabetes Academy, it’s that we also LEARN how to eat right!!
Purposely tailored for children’s apprehension, the LOL NutrisCOOL programme places healthy nutrition at its core. It teaches children from an early start, how to grow FOOD-Smart, to make smart food choices and most importantly, how to develop healthy eating behaviors.
By means of this programme that is to say, children grow aware of their daily diets as well as how to wisely distinguish healthy from non-healthy foods, internalizing the basic principles of eating right, exercising regularly and having a healthy lifestyle altogether. We thus stress the importance of choosing natural, whole, mainly unprocessed foods, rich in terms of healthy proteins, vitamins, fibers and minerals over those highly processed foods, only rich in empty calories, refined sugars or hydrogenated fats. It goes without saying that processing depletes foods from their quality nutrients needed to preserve and maintain one’s overall health and wellbeing.
Secondly, children also gain awareness regarding the excess weight that ineluctably lays the ground for type 2 diabetes later in life and it is thus worth noting that this likely feat has obesity preemptive value on the long run, both theoretically and practically.
Furthermore, LOL NutrisCOOL aims to convey an adequate, hands-on control over type 1 diabetes, in terms of learning adaptive or coping strategies. Children become familiar not only with blood sugar readings and their underlying interpretation but also with the steps required for a successful glucose management (i.e. insulin shot, carbohydrate in-take, etc). There is nothing more soothing than to know that your little one is constantly taken care of, and that, for the most of the day, they are in the best of hands.
Moreover, at LOL English Diabetes Academy, we are fully aware that not only a poor diet can disrupt children’s wellbeing; it is also the emotional distress that can play a major role. It may be mere sadness, social anxiety and emotional disconnection; or maybe learning difficulties and bullying behaviors, to name a few. Therefore, the programme aims to raise awareness by putting children on the path of self-discovery, personal growth and most importantly, empathy. Not only do we get to mindfully explore disruptive emotions but we also readily learn how to cope and integrate them. It is our main goal to constantly work towards overcoming the communication standstills that may emerge and disrupt thereafter the family, school or social relationships.
With these in mind nonetheless, LOL English Diabetes Academy is more than happy to invite parents as well to come to school and join our activities!!! Within our new LOL Family Bonding programme, parents and children work as rock-hard teams, having lots of fun and getting emotionally reconnected. Featuring fun family activities, such as cooking, arts and crafts, competition games or challenges, role-playing, working-out or dancing sessions, the Family Bonding programme aims to strengthen the existing family bonds in a new experiential context as well as to yield unforgettable memories for children and parents alike.
