Healthy cooperatives

• April 20, 2024

Between 6 and 12 years of age, children have a continuous growth and eat four to five times a day. During this period, food habits, tastes and rejections are established. Therefore, ingest healthy food At school it is important, since they cover a third of the total calories per day.

It is planned that for the 2010-2011 school year, in Mexico, measures will be included against obesity . The regulation prepared by experts in public health, nutrition, cardiology and the Association of Nutritionists, will pay special attention to the foods of the cooperatives have higher nutritional quality.

The results of the "Survey of Health in Public School Students in Mexico 2008 of the Center for Research and Nutrition in Health" revealed that 31.2% of primary school students and 31.6% of secondary school students suffer from obesity.

On the other hand, Dr. Oralia Nájera Medina, researcher of the Department of Health Care of the Xohimilco Unit of the Autonomous Metropolitan University, within the framework of the presentation of the studies on "Overweight and malnutrition in children in daycare centers of the Coyoacán delegations and Tláhuac ", considered the approval of the General law of health to prohibit the sale of junk food in schools and make mandatory 30 minutes of exercise a day.

According to the researcher, it is a fallacy that because of the scarcity of resources they have to consume fattening foods, on the contrary, a healthy diet is more accessible, since seasonal fruits and vegetables are not expensive. In addition, we must consider an important factor: who was malnourished as a child will be obese as an adult, because his body learned to store and save energy, he concluded.

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