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The talks that have started, this Monday, at the San Cristóbal school, are scheduled for this Wednesday at Juan González, on December 16 and 17 at the CEIP Virgen de las Huertas, in Alfonso X in January and the San Fernando School in the coming months

The Councilor for Health of the City of Lorca, José Ángel Ponce, has reported on the healthy Workshops that are going to be held in different schools of the municipality aimed at students in 5th grade and that include blind tasting and healthy shopping gymcana.

The mayor of Health recalled that "overweight and childhood obesity is taking alarming proportions in many countries and is a serious problem that must be addressed urgently. In the Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations in 2015, prevention and control of noncommunicable diseases are considered basic priorities. "

Ponce has referred to the "increase in the consumption of ultra-processed products and foods rich in sugars, largely guided by the excess of publicity and the economic price that these products have causes them to be consumed more and more" since "each There are more and more sedentary children despite multiple motivational intervention programs focused on increasing the consumption of fruits and vegetables and increasing physical activity. "

The councilor stressed that "the Health Promoting School is one that promotes health and learning with all means at its disposal and does everything in its power to offer favorable environments for health, as well as key programs and services of promotion and Education for Health. The City of Lorca, specifically through the Department of Health, bets on this initiative and collaborates in the realization of these healthy workshops. "

Specifically, "the workshop aims to educate in a practical and easy way in health and nutrition to improve the health status of children, for this a pharmacist-nutritionist will give a talk with the basic notions of emotional nutrition and health, in addition to the smallest they will taste foods that most do not want to eat, being surprised by their taste in a blind tasting of fruits and vegetables and will participate in a gym by collaborative groups in which they will have limited time to prepare a healthy menu and make the purchase of that menu. "

So far there are five educational centers that have joined this initiative: CEIP San Cristóbal (December 9) from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., Juan González School (December 11) from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. hours, the Virgen de las Huertas, where this workshop will take place next Monday, 16 from 10 to 11:30, and on Tuesday, December 17, from 9 to 10:30, as well as the CEIP Alfonso X that will have it January and the San Fernando School where this workshop will be held in the coming months.

The mayor of Health has encouraged the schools of the municipality to join this initiative and participate in these workshops "for the benefit of the health of their students" and recalled that "to obtain all the information they will only have to contact the Department of Health of the City Council of Lorca ".

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca