Food Technology

CGHS Stage 5 Food Technology students engaged with metabolic health professionals (doctors, dieticians and exercise physiologists) lead by Professor Luigi Fontana, from the Healthy Longevity and Lifestyle Medicine team at the Charles Perkins Centre, Sydney University, to bring the science and physiology of healthy longevity to school students.

Students undertook the Nutrition workshop to explore the latest science in metabolic health from the perspective of food, cooking and deciphering the plethora of information (and misinformation) available through marketing and media. By discussing nutrition principles including food processing, ingredient label interpretation and deriving balanced meals by understanding the physiological basis of micro- and macronutrients.

By engaging students early in life, the program aims to mitigate burgeoning chronic disease currently burdening our young population. Pre-diabetes, obesity, and mental health decline all have a common metabolic substrate which must be addressed in young, developing minds.

Students thoroughly enjoyed the workshops.