Reversible infant overweight with nutritious lunch

The content of the school snack is of vital importance to avoid overweight and the obesity in children and young people, so that parents should include healthy foods and avoid those with high energy content, according to the nutritionist Martha Leticia Martínez Viveros .

Currently, in Mexico there are many children who have these risk factors to develop diseases chronic degenerative diseases such as diabetes , hypertension arterial disease, cardiovascular diseases and some types of Cancer , said the coordinator of Nutrition Programs of the Coordination of Integrated Programs in Health, PrevenIMSS.

The expert explained that a snack (intermediate food between meals) should contain vegetables, seasonal fruit, as well as a prepared food with low content in grease , that includes a cereal of whole or integral grain and simple water.

Martínez Viveros recommended eating fruit in its entirety and discarding juices, because when squeezing them and not consuming them immediately, an important part of vitamin C and of fiber dietetics; even, he warned, more simple sugars are ingested because more than one portion of fruit .

He explained that the simplest way to know a ration of fruit is to use the hands, because the amount of fruit recommended in each of the meals is equivalent to the closed fist of the child's hand.

In the case of vegetables, the primary source of vitamins , minerals Y fiber , suggested that they be part of the snack, so it is necessary to consume the equivalent of two open hands together, giving importance to variety and color.

Meanwhile, the main food must be made with an ingredient of animal origin (low in fat) and a cereal, preferably whole grain or whole grain; for example, an avocado cake with panela cheese and tomato, which includes thin slices of pumpkin; or in your case, a sandwich with ham, panela cheese, avocado, alfalfa sprouts and spinach leaves.

The children's snack should include simple water, because it is very important to accustom them to this main source of water. hydration , and not sugary drinks.

The nutritionist commented that parents should be aware of the feeding of their children, through annual medical evaluations, to detect in a timely manner problems related to the nutrition , how is he overweight , theobesity waveanemia .

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