上周四看到 来宾帖子 from a student who had applied to the 西安大略大学's 布雷西亚 College for a nutrition program who along with her acceptance letter, received candy to mark her "甜蜜的报价" of admission.
Well this story has a happy ending as the food and nutrition faculty 在 布雷西亚, when they heard about these "sweet" offers, immediately set out to rectify them. The fact is, a small handful of M&Ms in and of itself isn't the problem but rather the problem is the societal normalization of candy and junk food 在 every turn.
Kudos to 布雷西亚 College for sorting this out and 这里 is the letter that I received from them on the very day the original guest posting went live,
布雷西亚’s Food & Nutritional Sciences faculty have heard the message from the guest blogger on Dr. Freedhoff’在我们的网站上,我们坚决同意,含糖零食是所有政策中都需要解决的常见且不必要的奖励。提供一个“sweet offer” to prospective students is a new practice 布雷西亚’s Registrar’情人节期间实施的办公室’s和Easter邮件寄出了,尽管这并不意味着危害,但不幸的是,这一决定并未事先告知营养与营养学的教职员工。
At 布雷西亚, we teach our students to think boldly, lead passionately, and make positive changes in our communities by taking action and leading by example. In particular, our nutrition faculty teach our students to consider the food environment and its impact on individual food behaviours. Drs. Dworatzek and Matthews, together with food services, have even implemented a peer nutrition education program called 新鲜 旨在改变校园的饮食环境。