Health Promotion and Wellness Activities

Blend & Boost: DIY Smoothie Bar

Celebrate Nutrition Month with Student Health and Wellness and the Food Resource Centre!

Create your own delicious, nutrient-packed smoothie while learning practical tips for affordable and nutritious snacking. Whether you're looking for quick breakfast ideas, post-workout fuel, or budget-friendly snacks, we’ve got you covered!

Take and Make Meal Kits

Student Health and Wellness is giving you a tasty way to celebrate Nutrition Month! Pick up a free Take & Make Meal Kit and cook up a hearty Sweet Potato Black Bean Chili at home. Each kit includes all the ingredients and a recipe to make this nutritious meal. First come, first served – while supplies last!

This initiative is made possible through generous donations from Alumni & Friends via Lakehead’s Food Security Committee. 

(OR) CANCELLED - Transgender Day of Visibility

- This event has been cancelled due to weather - 

Transgender Day of Visibility (TDOV) is an annual event dedicated to celebrating the resilience, achievements, and contributions of transgender and non-binary people worldwide. Observed on March 31st, TDOV raises awareness of the challenges trans individuals face while promoting inclusion, equality, and support. 

(OR) Don't Push Your Luck

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Don't leave your safety to luck this weekend - drop by Simcoe Hall to pick up your free Safe Party Kit from Student Health and Wellness and kick off your St. Patty's festivities with some not-drinking games and other activities.

(OR) Take10: Don't Push Your Luck @HP

Happy St. Patrick's Day! Don't leave your safety to luck this weekend - drop by Heritage Place to pick up your free Safe Party Kit from Student Health and Wellness and kick off your St. Patty's festivities with some not-drinking games and other activities.

(OR) Build-A-Bowl

Join Student Health and Wellness for a nutrition lunch and learn. You will build your own power bowl and learn about healthy eating strategies with limited time and budget. 

Please sign up here! Drop-ins will be accommodated where possible.

(OR) Culinary Connections: Exploring Diversity Through Food

As part of Nutrition Month and ITSTARTS week, Student Health and Wellness invites you to Culinary Connections: Exploring Diversity Through Food. Food plays an integral role in how we connect with culture and with one another! Drop by Alumni Commons to sample some ingredients from different cultures and learn how to prepare them. Who knows, you might just find a new favourite food! We will also have information about where you can buy the ingredients, as well as information about local restaurants from diverse cultures.

(OR) Snooze-A-Palooza

Friday, March 14th is World Sleep Day! But we're celebrating a couple of days early so we don't interfere with your big World Sleep Day plans (sleeping, presumably).

Drop by the blanket fort in Simcoe Hall (you can't miss it) from 1:30-3:30pm for a real snooze-a-palooza. There will be many snore-worthy activities and prizes to be won! Pajamas are encouraged (and may just get you extra chances to win prizes!)

(OR) Lunch & Learn: Wild Rice Recipes

Join The Office of Indigenous Initiatives and Student Health and Wellness for a Lunch and Learn about Wild Rice! Wild rice, known as "manoomin" in the Anishinaabe language is a traditional food in Anishinaabe culture with spiritual and economic significance to many communities. It is also extremely versatile!

For today's lunch and learn, we will be enjoying Wild Rice and Chicken soup.

(OR) Take10: Have a SOUP-er Day! @HP

Join Student Health and Wellness and have a SOUP-er day to kick off Nutrition Month. 

  • Grab a FREE soup mix (while supplies last)
  • Learn some cost-saving grocery and meal-prep tips
  • Test your knowledge with food trivia!

** This event has been rescheduled from Friday March 7th **

 

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