This May, the STEPUPIORS team visited the fifth-grade students of the Elementary School “Jovan Miodragović” in Belgrade. Dr Milena Čavić, Dr Ana Đurić and Aleksandra Stanojević, as part of an educational workshop called “Healthy intestines – healthy us”, talked to the children about a healthy lifestyle. They tried to emphasize to pupils that the active implementation of a healthy lifestyle could improve the health of the entire nation and reduce the incidence of malignant diseases, with emphasis on malignancies of the digestive system. Information about healthy eating, the importance of physical activity and the harmfulness of bad habits such as smoking and excessive use of electronic devices was conveyed to children in a way adapted to their age through play, recognizing healthy foods, solving tests and making models of DNA molecules. The main aim of this workshop was to educate children about the fact that they need to take care of their own health in the future and that the effect of possibly present unfavorable hereditary factors can be significantly reduced by a healthy lifestyle.
The children showed good theoretical knowledge which, for various reasons, they still do not apply in their everyday life. Their desire is to acquire new knowledge through creative work with adults. Our obligation is to enable them to do so, which will first of all support their proper psychophysical development.
