16 August 2019 – “You are what you eat” is a commonly used phrase as the food one eats has a bearing on one’s state of mental, emotional and physical health. Students especially need to juggle many academic and extracurricular activities, and they need to eat the right nutritious food to perform well in school.
Getting the fundamentals
of human nutrition right can ensure that you have the mental focus and
concentration for improved productivity, better memory and gives your body the
energy to carry you through the day’s activities.
It is common for
students especially, to pull all-nighters when studying, often without taking
sufficient breaks in between. While this may seem like a reasonable sacrifice
to score good grades, students may end up regretting it later on when they
start to notice having fatigued eyes can disrupt their focus to study.
Therefore, BRAND’S Suntory Malaysia – one of the leading health and wellness companies in Malaysia has introduced a specially formulated BRAND’S Essence of Chicken with Goji Berry that helps students especially during the exam period to nourish their eyes, improve concentration and boost the immune system.
Speaking
to parents and students at the BRAND’S® SMART Achievers Award
prize-giving ceremony, Dr. Mandy Yee, a Senior Scientist at BRAND’S®
Suntory Asia shared the nutritional goodness of BRAND’S® Essence of
Chicken with Goji Berry and introduces the benefits of the product, during the
event day.
“Good
nutrition and a balanceddiet helps students to achieve their optimum
study performance. Drinking BRAND’S® Essence of Chicken with Goji
Berry daily helps students to reach their peak study capability.” said Dr. Yee.
“BRAND’S® Essence
of Chicken with Goji Berry is a natural food supplement with no added salt and
is cholesterol and fat free that enhances reading ability, reduces eye
tiredness while helping students to stay sharp and concentrate better during
classes and revisions to help them achieve their optimal study performance,”
added Dr. Yee.
Corroborating the
findings are at least 20 students, who excelled at their final examinations
last year and were handpicked to receive the annual BRAND’S® SMART Achievers
Award.
Ranging from secondary to tertiary level
education, they were selected from hundreds of entries to emerge as the best of
the best to receive the much-coveted recognition that only recognizes top students
who excelled in both their academic and extra-curricular performance.
Travelling
from as far as Sarawak, Johor, Kelantan, Penang, Melaka and Perak, the proud
students and even prouder parents attended the special awards ceremony held in
their honour where they received cash, product hampers and a certificate as
part of their rewards.
The BRAND’S®
SMART Achievers Award that aims to encourage and enable the young
generation to achieve their full potential has 4 categories with respective cash prize
awards – PT3 (RM500), SPM (RM1,000), STPM (RM1,500) and university/college
exams (RM2,000).
“BRAND’S®
has been awarding top performing students since its inception in 2006. The BRAND’S SMART
Achievers Award is to honour students for their academic results and
outstanding performance in their co-curricular activities. This year, we are
honoured that 20 accomplished students have gained entry into this prestigious
club,” said
Gillian Loh, Head of Marketing of BRAND’S® Suntory Malaysia.
BRAND’S®
Essence Of Chicken is the only chicken essence in the market backed by over 50 international scientific papers and
clinical studies. Results have shown that regular consumption improves memory
by up to 15% and enhances concentration by 22%, while metabolism can be
increased by up to 16%.
Scientist
Profile
Dr.
Mandy Yee is a Senior Scientist at BRAND’S Suntory Asia since 2015. She has
been involved in collaborative scientific research on BRAND’S® products,
development of new products and scientific communication. Mandy received her
Ph.D in Science from the Saitama University in Japan. She studied Molecular
Biology and Biochemistry, and had worked on Academic Research at the University
of Tokyo for 4 years before joining the company.
Over
3 years with the company, she has developed a nutrition-based product for kids
in developing country. She also manages collaborative research with research
institutes and Suntory Global Innovation Center in Japan that focuses on blood
glucose management. She is also supporting the content development of BRAND’S
Health Enrichment Centre, which provides scientific evidence to support
healthcare professionals and consumers in the enrichment of their health and
wellbeing.
