Nuricia Roca together with representatives of the award winners and the authorities invited to the event. PHOTO: Manuel Castells

The I.E.S. Pablo Sarasate de Lodosa (Navarra) has won result in the category of most viewed video in the II competition Audiovisual Nutrivideo of the University of Navarra. In the contest, promoted by the School of Pharmacy in partnership with the high school Tomás Pascual Sanz, 294 students from 40 schools in Spain, India, Uruguay and Costa Rica have participated.

The submission awards, directed by journalist Nuria Roca, has gathered today more than 200 students. Also participated the counselor of Education of the Government of Navarra, Alberto Catalán; the president of high school Tomás Pascual Sanz, Ricardo Martí Fluxá; the president of high school Official Dietitians-Nutritionists of Navarra, Arancha Ruiz de las Heras; Ana Frías, director of high school Navarro de employment; the dean of the School of Pharmacy, Iciar Astiasarán; and Vice President of Institutional Communication of the academic center, Juan Manuel Mora.

In the category of Best Video, the winner was high school Sagrado Corazón de Madrid, with its work "We are what we eat". Four other schools also won the international runner-up prize - for the Kamet Study Center in India - and three national runners-up prizes - for high school Erain in Guipúzcoa; high school San Patricio, in Alcobendas (Madrid); and I.E.S. Sem Tob, in Carrión de los Condes (Palencia).

In total, the competition has collected 73 works that have been disseminated through the Nutrivideo YouTube platform, where they have received more than 27,000 views. In this regard, the journalist Nuria Roca stressed the importance of public figures "collaborating in events of this social significance: an initiative that puts young people in the spotlight, so that they themselves - with their language and through the communication channels they use - can spread a message full of health among friends and peers".

5 "Health Workshops".

Ricardo Martí Fluxá, president of high school Tomás Pascual, added that regardless of the winning videos, "in this subject of experiences the important thing is the work awareness of young people". "If correct healthy lifestyle habits are acquired from an early age," he said, "it will be easier to maintain them than to impose them in a rigid and forced way at middle age, because they have reached a high risk of suffering from cardiovascular diseases, cancer, hypertension or diabetes".

Alberto Catalán, counselor of Education of the Government of Navarra, congratulated all the winners and pointed out the value of initiatives such as Nutrivideo "so that adolescents assume good lifestyle habits in their daily lives". Juan Manuel Mora, Vice President of Institutional Communication of the academic center, closed the event highlighting the credibility, the high participation in the competition and the creativity of the works presented by all the students.

The submission awards ceremony coincided with the celebration of the National Nutrition Day. On this occasion the School of Pharmacy and Human Nutrition and Dietetics completed the workshop with a Healthy Food Circuit, where students and the rest of the attendees participated in five workshops to know their body mass index, their amount of body fat, the most appropriate menus for each one or how to interpret food labels.

The contest was supported by high school Tomás Pascual Sanz for Nutrition and Health through Chair Tomás Pascual Sanz-University of Navarra, dedicated to generating and disseminating new knowledge in the field of nutrition, health and wellness.

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