Health and Fitness – A need at BITS PILANI

Introduction

A student’s health is important for the efficient functioning of his body and mind. Health and Fitness of a living being comes solely from his lifestyle i.e. the kind of food he eats , exercise etc.

Today in this fast paced life people have totally lost their sense of how to keep a healthy body. They are gaining weight(obesity) ,  suffering with numerous diseases like diabetes, asthma, cardiovascular (you name it !), and the major thing is, this has started happening  from a young age.

College is a great place to learn, grow and explore , and certainly when students leave college they should certainly learn the way of life i.e. how to be healthy and fit.

Living in Pilani campus for 5 years, it certainly became my second home and a great place where  I have completely changed mentally and physically( 😉 ). This blog gonna be all about what I observed in these 5 years should change and be implemented A.S.A.P for the betterment of the kind of individuals pilani campus is producing.

 

Current State of Food consumption

There are 7 places in Pilani campus where you can eat –

1. ANC(all night canteen)
2. Looters
3. Food King
4. cannaught place
5. mess/mess extras 😀
6. Institute canteen
7. numerous reddi’s

Ok, so that looks like a huge number of places where you can eat healthy food, oh wait !! , healthy? are you sure?

First of all let me define what is an healthy food!

• A healthy food  is a kind of food that provides your body with essential macro nutrients, micro nutrients, fluid and adequate calories. This kind of food makes you beautiful  inside and outside, you rarely suffer from any disease (believe me on this) .
• If you talk about “the traditional indian way of  eating” as in the ayurvedic way then it mostly consists of whole grains, dry fruits, fruits, vegetables.
• This type of food doesn’t contain refined wheat flour(maida) , bad oils, meat, refined sugar and the list goes on!

Now let’s analyse the food we are getting in various eating places  listed-

 

MeSS – the sugar factory

Mess is a crucial part of a students life, It is designed so that students have their meal at proper time. If you see the food available, I would mark it as a rich and healthy diet. The food comprises of generally –

• Roti(fibre, protein)
• pulses(protein)
• Curd(calcium,protein)
• Salad(multivitamins)
• Rice(energy)

This is a pretty good diet in my opinion , but, apart from this you have an option of mess extras – the sugar factory. Mess extras generally comprises of –

• Colddrinks
• Packed Juices
• Biscuits
• Ice-creams
• Chips 

or if I have to express what Mess extras really are , then –

• Bad Fats(Trans Fats)
• High Sugar
• Bad oils
• High sodium
• High bad cholestrol

So I mean something is going terribly wrong here, either BITS Pilani doesn’t really know what it is offering to its student , or they may know, but who gives a shit about someone’s health .

A pic of mess extras-

And also each and every day there is also a lot of wastage of food, here is a pic demonstrating food wastage on a particular day in shankar mess –

So why is the food been wasted ?

Because people have lost their sense of what to eat. When India was called “Sindhu” people really had a better sense of what they are putting in their body, but now “most” of the people’s vision is been blurred by ad-agency , the 2 minute noodles concept, drinking cold drink instead of water when you are thirsty, there are so many things  going wrong just because of unhealthy marketing.

If these ad agencies just show  what Maggi  really does to your body no one will ever desire eating that shit.

Also here comes the role of college education , If we are taught the 2 w’s like

• what is bad
• why is bad

for everything we put in our body, we are gonna get better and better as an individual.

ANC/LOOTERS/FOOD KING

Ok so these 3 idiots are working on the same vision –

“How to mess with people’s health?”

yeah really! this is what they are doing. If I have to choose between them  I will go for FOOD KING because they have nice dosas and uthappam that I can feed on 😀 . If we leave south indian there is nothing really to say because all of it is just trash.

I don’t know why BITS PILANI is even allowing them to run , here is an image of all the bad fats, high cholestrol food that is been sold –

Institute Canteen

This I will regard as one of the safest place to eat in Pilani. Apart from all the oily stuff that they have ,  some of the things I really found quite healthy –

• Uthappam
• Buttermilk
• Dosa
• Aloo Paratha(less oily) + Dahi

Conclusion

There is a lot going on at BITS nowadays , the entire fee hike protest and all, but I think in this current age of processed food this is something that should also be taken into consideration not only in BITS but in every college.

There is a famous saying you know –

So this was my case study about what food, students are eating at BITS. Please comment your opinions below.