(www.neomundo.com.ar_/_SINC) a new work, recently published in the Journal nutrition hospital, reveals that the question of who made the family daily menu is “very important”. Thus, scientists have observed that measure the family menu is prepared by persons other than the mother, the nutritional status of children worsens considerably.
And is currently “remains the mother family figure who better knows the food needs of their children and the better prepared, in terms of food knowledge, for the development and maintenance of optimum family food”, to warn the authors of the UGR.
In this research, the scientists used a sample made up of 718 children and adolescent schoolchildren aged between 9 and 17 years of age, belonging to thirteen schools public and private of the city of Granada and its province. Through the use of techniques of Anthropometry, were valued variables of weight and height of the subject, and thereby the body mass index.
Were also valued six you folds skin (tricipital, bicipital, subscapularis, suprailÃaco fold, crease of thigh and calf), as well as four perimeter body, i.e., waist, hip, arm and thigh.
On the other hand, and in order to analyse the influence of the family environment in the development of overweight and obesity among the population of students, the UGR scientists used a questionnaire specifically developed by the research team, which not only recorded information relating to aspects of their family environment, but also the frequency of consumption of certain foods and the practice of physical activity.
The danger of SEDENTARY leisure
Researchers have also found a relationship between the practice of sedentary leisure and the values of BMI (BMI), finding statistically significant differences for BMI of those individuals with predominantly sedentary idle attitudes toward those others that did not maintain them.
Therefore, as increases the number of hours that students watch television, play video games or are simply connected to the internet, their body mass index scores are increased exponentially.
Lifestyle change
In the light of the results of this work, scientists have concluded that there is “an urgent need” to promote practices and healthy lifestyles among families, in addition to recommending the practice of physical exercise through “classic games”.
Is the best tool to maintain an adequate nutritional state and, ultimately, an optimal state of health, especially when the main involved are subjects of infants, school-age population in this case.
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