In a Congress held in Oviedo recently, Pilar Gómez Enterría, Nutrition Area Coordinator of the Spanish Society of Endocrinology and Nutrition, has ensured that eating as a family at least three times a week, reduces in children 32% the risk of suffering from an eating disorder and 15% the risk of obesity.
This expert also highlights the important work that parents do when educating their children in food and ensures that the best that can be done with children kids is to advise them and make them eat in a balanced way.
So the coordinator Gómez Enterría, has put the focus on what is not recommended and that for children to eat healthy, reinforcements of the type are used, if you eat the dessert vegetable I give you ice cream. And it is that in his opinion we convey the misconception that the good is the dessert and the bad is the vegetable, so he advises do not negotiate with foodIt is not good to force them either, but it is obvious that they cannot eat only what they like.
Obviously, it has also been highlighted, the importance it has in the development and health of children, the sleep at least the eight hours Y to practice some exercise since sedentary life over time helps to develop unwanted diseases, such as obesity.
Therefore, we recommend the summer, as a good time to educate nutritionally Since having no school, you can instill in children healthy habits, such as a good breakfast, an increase in the intake of fruits and vegetables, which are more desirable at this time of the year and the practice of exercises such as swimming with which They not only have fun and refresh themselves but also practice sports.
The congress has also thrown troubling issues and data. And, these experts point out that one in four children is undernourished in hospital admissions and confirms that one in three Spanish children is overweight and one in five is obese, with Spain being one of the European countries with the highest rate of childhood obesity
All this, he concludes, Pilar Gómez Enterría, is the result of changes in traditional diet and the decrease in physical activity. There is currently a higher consumption of prepared foods with a high saturated fat content and simple sugars that provide few micronutrients, compared to a consumption well below the recommended amount of fruit, vegetables and legumes.
We must try to get our kids eat in a balanced way, no longer for us, but for their health that are the most important.
