The model lesson was attended by schoolchildren of 8-11 grades of the Republic general education organizations, who also are the participants of the campaign “Healthy food is active longevity”, designed to apply a need for a healthy and active lifestyle to the younger generation. The leaders of the campaign prepared and held a lesson on “Healthy nutrition of adolescents”. During the lesson accompanied by a colorful slide presentation, the pupils told about the rules of healthy eating and water regime. In a playful way they determined what products are really necessary for teenagers, as well as convincingly proved the detrimental effect of daily fast food and harmful surrogates. Students learned to calculate the body mass index during the practical part of the lesson.

“Nowadays Russia actualizes 12 national projects aimed at health improvement and achieving life expectancy of 80+”, Gennady Onishchenko said.  “And the purpose of the campaign “Healthy food is active longevity” results from this objective. We focus on the most important age group – young people, whom we should make competent and active in the issue of healthy lifestyles. Today 12 thousand Russian schoolchildren, 80 subjects of the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People’s Republic are involved in this process”.

At the end of the lesson Gennady Onishchenko noted the active position of pupils. “It is great that schoolchildren of the Republic have become active participants of the campaign.  The leaders of the project learn from the lessons themselves and share the information with their peers, thereby contributing to the common important cause,” he stressed. 

Gennady Onishchenko said that at the end of the campaign “Healthy food is active longevity” pupils who took the most active part would have an opportunity to go to Artek summer resort in September-October 2019, and expressed confidence that among the winners there would be children from the DPR.