Day 4: Fitness First!

We started our day today, 8.30 am at the DHO. We were waiting for the DHO staff to guide us to Hutan Rekreasi Lata Mengkuang . All of us were excited to go there to participate in the Weight Reduction Programme which was organized by the Health Promotions Unit along with the NCD Unit. The budget for the programme was sponsored by the State Health Department.

This programme is conducted 3 times per year. The objectives are:

1 .To reduce the body weight of the staff to ideal

2. To reduce the complications due to obesity

This programme is targeted at the staff whose body mass index (BMI) is more than 27. The staff selected will be informed earlier and attendance is mandatory.


Once we reached there, the participants were warming up and doing aerobics. They were due to start an Explorace. Miss Azizah bt Din, the nutritionist in charge was explaining the rules to the participants. We were asked to split into two groups and head to two checkpoints.

As soon as we reached our checkpoints, we assisted the officers there in organizing the games as well as cheering for the participants.

However we were not able to stay there till the activities ended because we had a talk back in the DHO and we drove back at 11.

Vijayananthini