IMU Staff Embraces Health and Wellness on Healthy Breakfast Day

The morning of 2 June 2016 saw IMU staff enjoying a healthy and relaxing breakfast at the Driveway of IMU Bukit Jalil campus. An initiative launched by the Human Resources (HR) Department as one of the monthly employee engagement activities, the Healthy Breakfast Day was in line with the Institution’s aim to promote health and wellness amongst its staff. Besides supporting staff wellness, the event was also aimed at providing a platform for staff to engage and socialise with their colleagues and bond with each other.

A total of three hundred staff attended the event and enjoyed the healthy organic breakfast provided by Medifoods, an organic food provider contracted by IMU to supply food at its library café.

Some of the healthy food served included nasi lemak made of brown rice and organic condiments, garden salads, fried noodles, assorted healthy sandwiches, yam cake, chai kueh (steamed vegetable dumplings), soy custard, red bean soup and pumpkin barley soup.

HR made the event more meaningful by partnering with the Nutrition and Dietetics (N & D) Division to organise a thirty-minute talk. The speaker of this talk, Lee Ching Li, shared on some misconceptions and key facts about eating a healthy breakfast and three important key take-home messages with the staff. Overall, the Healthy Breakfast Day was well-received by the staff.

Name	Photo	Comments on the event
Jane Chong, Administrative Executive of Centre for Pre-University Studies		Thanks to HR Department for organising this event, it is an event with many purposes – free breakfast, staff’s bonding, and sharing of information from the expert. It has really put a smile on everyone’s face during this mid-week.
Afzan Razif, MDL Lab Assistant		Food are all delicious. I am happy that we can gather together for this event since we are usually busy and rarely meet. Hope to get more events of this kind.
Dr Ebenezer Chitra Fabian, Lecturer of Applied Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology Division		It’s a different experience for me because I don’t usually eat vegetables in the morning. The healthy breakfast gives us a balance diet with a mixture of protein and carbohydrate. It’s nice. We can relax and start a good day!
Lim Ai Loon, the manager at IMU Healthcare		Overall, a fantastic breakfast to start a day with. Well done to HR and good job to Ching Li who delivered a great talk.

A similar event ‘Healthy Hi-Tea’ had also been organised in Clinical School Seremban in the same afternoon. A total of fifty academic and non-academic staff in the school attended and enjoyed the hi-tea served. A similar event will be organised for the other Clinical Schools in August 2016.

The Healthy Breakfast Day and Healthy Hi-Tea had successfully brought together staff in support of healthy eating and to kick-start the concept of healthy living in the IMU community. It was hoped that more similar events would be organised by HR and other departments in the near future.