A columnist living in Finland shares “health advice” from a local elementary school, generating a lot of buzz.
Every year, the United Nations ranks the happiness of countries in terms of physical and mental health, per capita income and freedom. She recently posted the “health advice” from Finnish elementary school, which includes “take a little bath”, “get 10 hours of sleep”, and “eat 5 times a day”. She recently posted “health advice” from Finnish elementary schools, including “take a little bath”, “sleep 10 hours”, “eat 5 meals a day”, etc., which caused a lively discussion.
In a Facebook posting, “Fen FenFanChat: Finland’s Road to School”, she said that she recently received a health notice from her third grade daughter’s school, the content of which did not differ much from previous years, but the only difference was that there was an additional recommendation to “take a small shower every day”. The only difference was that there was an additional recommendation to “take a little shower every day. She pointed out that many students in Finland do not have the habit of taking a shower every day, but it was interesting to see this instruction.
She went on to post other health advice, including the need to get 10 hours of sleep a day, to eat five regular meals: breakfast, lunch, snack, dinner and bedtime snack, to consume enough vegetables and dairy products, to eat fish at least twice a week, to take vitamin D supplements, to use screens for less than two hours, and to exercise for at least 1.5 to 2 hours a day between the ages of 7 and 12.
In addition, Fen Fen adds that health checks in Finnish schools are conducted individually for each child and take 45 minutes for one person, which is equivalent to a whole class period. In addition to basic measurements, most of the time is spent chatting with the physician, caring about the student’s adjustment, family situation, friendships, living habits and mood state, while focusing on mental health and physical health.
After the article was exposed, it drew enthusiastic response, many netizens exclaimed “a person has a lesson can communicate with the doctor is great”, “is really a cultural difference, European children rarely bathe every day”, “eat 800ml of dairy products every day As for some people questioning the 5 meals a day is too much, Fen Fen responded, in fact, snacks are simple food, such as fruit, granola bars, or some milk, etc., and because local dinner is generally eaten early, after eating snacks will not immediately go to bed, the overall burden on children is not large.
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