las foundations sanitary and the food industry play a decisive role in the promotion of health gastrointestinal.

Commitment “for a world saludigestivo‟.

– for a saludigestivo world ” he has been the motto of the Spanish Foundation of the digestive system (FEAD) and last Wednesday have joined this cause major companies in the food sector have discussed together the scientific experts of the digestive tract on its commitment in promoting digestive health

Madrid”, 2011-December the diet is the most important modifiable factor in the maintenance of the digestive health. Food is neglected in recent years and the Mediterranean diet is not the most common in the tables of the Spaniards. The consequence is an increase of digestive diseases associated with obesity and bad dietary habits, affecting nearly 50 percent of the Spanish population ”, warns doctor Manuel Valenzuela, President of the Fundación Española of digestive (FEAD). To avoid the increase in this type of pathology is essential to educate the citizens and promote healthy behaviors. Hence the need to carry out awareness campaigns and promotion of good habits for health ”, adds Dr. Frederick Argüelles Arias, Director of founding activities of FEAD, which highlights the efforts made since the Foundation in this regard, as well as to promote research and disseminate advances on diagnosis and treatment of the digestive diseases ”.

In most cases there is an insurmountable barrier between scientific knowledge and the final consumer. Las foundations health must precisely trying to break that barrier and closer to the final consumer information that allows you to choose food according to their needs. In this regard, the collaboration between them and the food industry is very interesting face to promote habits of life enabling the population maintain and/or improve their State of health ”, explains Monica Olivares, responsible for investigation of Biosearch (Puleva).

the Mission of the health foundations

scientific societies contribute to scientific progress fostering the knowledge and research. Foundations promoted by scientific societies can make this knowledge available to the general population devoting resources to disseminate this knowledge in an affordable and accurate way. La Fundación Española of digestive, promoted by the Spanish society of digestive pathology (EDPS), in addition to stimulate scientific research and the training of specialists in gastrointestinal tract, promotes the dissemination of scientific information among the general population to improve the living habits and digestive health; and fulfills its mission in a rigorous and ethical environment, i.e., disseminates scientific knowledge in an affordable manner, while retaining all its scientific rigor ”, explains Dr. Valenzuela. In this mission, has the support of the industry to to complete his altruistic aim ”, adds the expert.

Commitment to for a world saludigestivo ”

The food industry plays an important role in the formation of the consumer in terms of eating habits and health promotion, is an important source of messages for the population on the composition of foods and their role in the diet. For this reason should be responsible for communication, while miss these opportunities to inform and educate the consumer ”, explains Amparo Lobato, responsible for nutrition and institutional relations of Kellogg Spain.

Also the food industry expresses its commitment to research and develop products according to the latest scientific advances. At this point, José Antonio Mateos, Director of the Danone Salud Área, stresses the importance of the health foundations on supporting innovation providing your opinion and scientific validation and permanently evaluating the value and usefulness of food ”.

The Spanish Foundation of the digestive apparatus (FEAD) has just launched a new website aiming to provide serious and reliable scientific information who visit, especially for patients and their families, in different diseases of the digestive system that exist. Is a website “attractive” for the user but with information supported by the scientific rigour of the Spanish society of digestive pathology (EDPS), which allows patients and the general population turn to it when they have doubts ”, explains Dr. Valenzuela.

Among its recommendations, the FEAD emphasizes the importance of a healthy diet and other preventive habits: caring for food (include enough fiber, fruit, vegetables and fermented milks), drinking enough liquid, respected hours of meals and eat slowly, and learn to go to the toilet in a suitable environment and regularlyYou have a day to day active, exercising physical regular, are some of the recommendations saludigestivas, besides not smoking, reducing alcohol intake, rest and control stress. Finally it stresses the importance of a diet and healthy habits for good digestive health.

Spanish Foundation of the digestive apparatus (FEAD)

The Spanish Foundation of the digestive ( FEAD ) is a private non-profit created and promoted by the Spanish society of digestive pathology (EDPS) and under the auspices of the Ministry of education and science.

Its main objectives include promoting digestive health of the Spanish population, campaigns of prevention of digestive diseases through health education of the population, support research in Gastroenterology and promote the formation of quality of health care professionals in this field. This organization also collaborates in international cooperation programmes for the third world.

The FEAD has the support of more than 2,200 gastroenterologists who represents the EDPS, a scientific society founded in 1933.