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Growth of childhood obesity certificate in research motivates change

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The government will change the state of school lunches in public schools because of the growth rates of childhood obesity in the country where the classes return, on 11, new to the 1 million students is a special sausage with 50% less than 75% less fat and sodium. The change improves the nutritional quality of a food mentioned as the favorite of students. "The sausage is odiada by nutritionists, but loved by kids," says the director of the department of school supplies of the Secretary of Education, Orlando Gerola.

Once a month will also be distributed cereal bars with chocolate, but without trans fat. According to the secretary, unlike the Barrinha found in markets, the schools served fewer calories and are made with palm oil. "The best is that the more healthy, cheaper is the menu," said Gerola, which says that the increase does not change costs.

Recent studies show that at the stage of basic education (1st to 8th grade), boys and girls are typical of adult weight. The State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) show that, between 6 and 15 years, the proportion of obese reaches 11.7%, close to the mark found in North American kids, a country where the disease is now considered an epidemic.

Alarming results were also found in a study of the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto University of São Paulo (USP) that examined 492 students enrolled in private schools, state and municipal. Had 24.6% excess weight - and, of these, 13% were obese. In the same study was confirmed the predominance of the "problem with the balance" the units of private education, where the rates of weight in disagreement with age reached 37.4%.

The dominance of students from private schools in the statistics has a great responsibility, and cites a specialist in nutrition and child psychology Vera Lucia Barbosa: the school canteen and the reign of snacks, fried food and soft drinks. "It is difficult to maintain a healthy diet and compete with what is sold in the canteen," she says, President of the move, based in São Paulo and by which it is now 1,200 children and adolescents in programs against obesity, since 2004.

Fix a healthy diet not only is prevention for diseases such as high cholesterol - present in 44% of children, according to studies at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp) - and type 2 diabetes, but this only in adults and now also in adolescents. Vera Lucia assessed before and after the boys who have given the full obesity and identified that the effects extend to the self. After a year of treatment, the difficulty of relationships of children fell from 70% to 25%.
 


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