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In theory, prevention and treatment of childhood obesity is quite simple. If you consume fewer calories than expended, weight loss, on the contrary, if you consume more calories than you need, is increased. But in practice, making the scale needle move a few inches to the left becomes much more complicated.

In developed countries there has been a change in eating habits due to the overabundance of high calorie foods and attractants. In addition, the lifestyle has changed dramatically and now are preferred sedentary recreational activities, and only during exercise. This makes it very difficult to lose weight.

The childhood obesity is a serious disease, considered a top priority in public health. The problem is that it is very clear what is the best way to approach treatment. The prevention and treatment strategies that exist today, are mainly focused on school or family.

Healthy education in school
based prevention programs in schools are aimed at all students, not just those children with obesity problems. It aims to promote healthy eating and fun physical activity among children.

These projects include practical demonstrations of the principles taught. It changes the composition of school meals, reducing fat and increasing fruit and vegetable servings. Also, develop action plans to increase time spent in physical activities during the school day.

But, of course, the success of such initiatives depends greatly on the enthusiasm of teachers and their training in the principles and practices of a healthy lifestyle.

The family health center
there other programs that focus on the family unit, on the basis that unless you encourage all the family to develop healthy habits is very difficult for children to maintain the learned in the school curriculum.

Most of these studies has, directly or indirectly, with the collaboration of medical personnel or social workers. Its aim is to change the entire family to ensure the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle long term, even after completing the program.

Problems of existing approaches
The results obtained so far, as a rule, programs for school-based intervention have failed to reduce the high rate of childhood obesity. Meanwhile, studies of family therapy achieved favorable changes in weight loss long term, but only in highly motivated people.

Possibly the reason for these modest results lies in the ineffectiveness of the recommendations, both dietary and physical activity on, as indicated in these programs.

The increase in sedentary activities like television, video games and computers, lack of urban and suburban spaces that encourage lead active lifestyles, the greater tendency to eat out, and the fact that rations seem more abundant other reasons for the limited success of these programs.

Even so, it is considered worthwhile to conduct studies of this type. Future research may be based on a combination of stimuli in school and at home, with a broader approach to healthy lifestyle.

Fruits and vegetables should be part of the diet of the family every day, and childhood is important that children receive all the benefits of these foods.

Children who eat fruits and vegetables have a healthier heart throughout his life.
“Fruits and vegetables are needed in the diet because they are natural source of vitamins and minerals, so they should be incorporated daily in the child’s diet, 2 to 3 servings of fruits or vegetables daily,” said Cecilia Gamarra, a nutritionist at Prisma .

Follow these tips:
1. Course offered a variety of plant colors red, green and yellow
2. Use vegetables and fruits to decorate food (olive eyes, ears, tomato, mushroom nose and mouth of bell)
3. Cook steamed vegetables: Concentra maintains the nutritional value and taste
4. Take your child to the store and leave to choose what to eat
5. Make sure that your child starts the day with fruits: Include in your breakfast fruit juice, a slice of banana, plums, strawberries, etc..
6. Add cut fruits and vegetables or mashed potatoes to meat dishes
7. Prepare desserts with vegetables or fruit
Important: It is said that it is advisable to give children 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day, however this can vary, you can eat 2 fruits a day, but meals can contain vegetables, thus we will be covering their needs.

At the regional level is not known accurately the prevalence of allergy to cow’s milk. Its incidence is not known world, which seems to be very variable. So say experts from the World Allergy Organization (WAO, according to its acronym in English) and other scientific institutions in a paper published in the journal Current Opinion in Allergy and Clinical Immunology. “This allergy is the result of an exaggerated and damaging immune system to certain proteins in cow’s milk. Your symptoms may be gastrointestinal reactions, skin, or respiratory tract (respiratory symptoms).

There are rare cases where a severe allergy such causes anaphylaxis is a generalized reaction of the immune system can become serious, “said the Agency CyTA a member of the panel of experts convened by WAO, Dr. Carlos E. Argentina Baena-Cagnani, who serves as academic director of the Center for Research in Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Catholic University of Cordoba. He added: “To determine the prevalence of this type of allergy that affects children early in life-usually up to four years-old, is one of the challenges we face today. “According to Baena Cagnani children can have two kinds of unwanted side effects due to intake of cow’s milk, one is the intolerance and other allergies. Many times the symptoms are confused, but what is the difference? “The difference is that intolerance is not immune mechanisms involved. A well-known case is the lack of lactase.

In this case the children lack the enzyme that aids digestion of lactose, a sugar found in milk. In contrast, allergy is a response from the defense system turns against the body, “says the specialist who also serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Global Alliance against Chronic Respiratory Diseases (GARD, according to their acronym in English) of the World Health Organization. underdiagnosed Allergy missing While epidemiological studies on allergy to milk the cow, Baena-Cagnani noted that the clinical evidence in several countries shows that “there are many cases of misdiagnosis Allergy to cow’s milk in a double sense. (more…)

Every time we have more awareness of proper oral hygiene is necessary to maintain a healthy mouth and, where possible, we will last a lifetime.

The earlier in childhood, acquire the proper hygiene habits will save us many problems in the mouth and what is no less important visits (sometimes painful) to the dentist.

But when start dealing with your mouth? FROMTHE EMERGENCE OFFIRSTCOG IN THE BABY.
Seize the advice of the CDC and instill our children about healthy dental hygiene habits to keep for a lifetime.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published some dental health tips, entitled: ” Brush Up on Healthy Teeth: Simple Steps for Kids Smiles . ” These tips include recommendations on good habits in the care of teeth from an early age and provide information on the proper use of toothpaste and other fluoride products (fluorine). Children between 2 and 5 years old may suffer from dental caries in primary teeth (“baby”). (more…)