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27 August 2018
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How do you start living a healthy lifestyle? Arina Engelbrecht, a wellness specialist in the Employee Wellness Division at the University of the Free State (UFS) says it only takes a few changes. Her passion is to motivate people to live a balanced life.
Being active enables a person to live life to the full. “Aim to exercise 150 minutes a week, which equates to 30 minutes five times a week in order to experience health benefits like prevention of lifestyle illnesses, better sleeping patterns, decreasing stress or anxiety and feeling more energetic,” says Engelbrecht.
Some of the initiatives Engelbrecht and her team drive are the Healthy Lifestyle Challenge, Park Runs in Bloemfontein, and the Healthy4Life Pedometer Challenge, which encourage staff members to become more physically active. “Everything we do, think or feel is influenced by what we eat! It is therefore important to eat a balanced diet. Healthy food = quality fuel = good health = sustained energy = peak performance,” she explains.
Pedometer Challenge
In the space of eight weeks 240 staff members from all campuses walked 54 000km as part of the Pedometer Challenge. Engelbrecht and her team mobilised 53 active teams from all three campuses. Three of these teams emerged as the winners as they exceeded the target of 1 300km which is the equivalent of walking to Cape Town. In September 2018 the Challenge is going national as the North-West University competes against UFS.
Celebrating women
This Women’s Month Engelbrecht’s message to women of Kovsies is: “We must start embracing who we are and start believing in ourselves, whether it is in the workplace, in business, or at home.”
UFS and American university presents service learning forum
2010-03-17
A two-and-a-half day forum on global perspectives on service-learning, community-based research and civic engagement will be presented jointly in Bloemfontein by the University of the Free State and the Appalachian State University, North Carolina, USA, from Tuesday 23 March 2010 until Thursday 25 March 2010.
Lecturers and students of the two universities will participate in the forum that will be held at various venues in and around Bloemfontein.
The opening address will be by Prof. Tim Stanton of the Stanford School of Education on the topic: Going global: A comparative analysis of service-learning’s development in the USA and South Africa. He is a pioneer in service-learning in the USA.
Please contact Prof. Mabel Erasmus at 051 4013732 or
erasmusm@ufs.ac.za for more information.