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The Councillor for Health of the City of Lorca, Antonia Lopez, this morning the campaign that will be workshops for students in First Grade as well as surveys and brochures for parents.
The Councillor for Health of the City of Lorca, Antonia Lopez, this morning the campaign "Prevention and detection of diabetes in children", which is expected to be involved 400 students from 10 schools throughout the municipality.
Lopez explained that "a nutritionist will develop customized workshops for students in First Primary Education, with awareness activities, while surveys and brochures distributed to achieve awareness, involvement and guidance of parents facing the feeding their children. "
"The goal is to spread healthy nutritional values, hygiene, living habits and exercise daily, weekly and daily standards more important in terms of the different food groups, teaching them the different food groups, their characteristics and nutritional, recommendations and other food around and the problem of excessive consumption of sweets, snacks, saturated fatty foods, etc. "stressed the council.
To do this, there will be a Power Point presentation drawings, in which they will explain the different health habits, nutrition and hygiene along one day and since have been raised, making them not make dull or long exposure.
Thereafter, using a food pyramid that is large enough, children will participate in and forming a pyramid with the same configuration in the different food groups that will be hitting on this, this will contribute to make them more readable explanation and promote participation and assimilation of the contents exposed. "
Antonia Lopez said "these activities will be developed in schools José Robles, Pérez de Hita, San Fernando, San Jose, San Cristobal, Mother of God, almond Torrecilla, Sun City and Virgen de las Huertas, sponsored by General Directorate of Public Health of the Ministry of Health. "
30% of children in the Autonomous Community of Murcia is obese or overweight, a rate higher than the national average, as one in five Spanish children between 3 and 12 years-20% - have extra kilos .
Even among smaller, between 3 and 5 years, there is a 7% of cases of obesity.
The sedentary nature of Spanish children and adolescents contributes to developing future chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease and other pathologies.
It is estimated that 52% of children are sedentary, with more than half are 'inactive' and do not make ideal physical activity.
Most of his time engaged in sedentary leisure doubles, at least, the related physical activity and sport and study.
One in three children and school-age children are overweight and obesity.
In Spain, childhood obesity has doubled in the last 15 years and continues to grow, due to poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle.
Obesity is the leading cause of diabetes type 2 non-insulin dependent, "which triggered an alarming number of cases of children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes, which, until recently, was associated with people over 40 years.
For this reason, the mayor stressed that "it requires an urgent change in the lifestyles of our young, driven and promoted by the family to stop this epidemic of XXI century, and recognized by the UN. It is also important parents can recognize the symptoms of diabetes to avoid complications and to reach an irreversible organ damage due to late diagnosis. "
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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