Youth
Healthy living ambassadors deliver powerful message
King David Victory Park High School’s counselling and life orientation departments invited well-known sports physician Dr Jon Patricios and Mandy-Lee Ginsberg, a recovering bulimic to speak to the school last Friday.
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This forms part of an initiative to educate children on the importance of living a healthy lifestyle.
Patricios explained how good nutrition and a healthy exercise programme were the best way to achieve in sports. He also described the physical and psychological damage that results from the abuse of supplements, growth hormones, and steroids.
Ginsberg shared her journey through the hell of bingeing and purgeing that took her to the brink of self destruction. She described the day she decided to take back her life, and how soul triumphed over ego. Both talks were empowering, and had the students on the edge of their seats.