Week 3 Class:490

What can we take from the Roman approach to improve our health?



To improve our health, we can take several approaches used by the Romans. First, we can provide our children with baths, just as the Romans did with their entire society. So often, when substituting in elementary classrooms, children are chided because they smell. In middle and high school classrooms, signs are hung in some of the classrooms about using soap, shampoo and deodorant. If we eliminate physical education from schools, some students will be denied the only chance they have for a bath/shower. Teachers actually tell tales of taking students to the showers because they smell so badly.



Another approach we can use from the Roman approach is to walk to our destinations rather than drive and use more public transportation.

I would also like to see our society go back to growing their own fruits and vegetables and have the little Mom and Pop shops on the corner. The fruit from local growers always taste better than the fruit from the large supermarket that was harvested before ripening.