Visual health and nutritional habits of the younger members of the Nastic, review

-Group Bavaria review for free eye health and eating habits of the lower levels of the Tarragona team

-Clínica Baviera child Visual health programme is aimed at early detection of Visual defects

-clinic London promotes healthy eating and activity physical among the child population with the promotion programme of food habits Buenos

Tarragona, April 2012.- group Bavaria, Bavaria clinic and clinic London and Gimnastic Tarragona have signed an agreement to develop the Visual child health and programmes promoting Buenos food habits with the lower of the Tarragona club categories. The project is aimed at children from the school of the basis team, aged between 4 and 12 years.

Clinic Bavaria will develop the program of child Visual health, whose purpose is to carry out a screening of possible Visual defects in childhood: lazy eye, strabismus, or problems of refraction, in addition to promoting good habits of visual health. During five days, the medical team of Clínica Baviera will scroll to the facilities of the club to check the eyes of almost a hundred of children through the following tests: visual acuity, binocular vision (test, ocular motility test cover estereopsis), objective refraction test of pupils and color test.

For its part, clinic London carried out the program of promotion of Buenos food habits in order to learn about nutritional trends and lifestyle of children, detect possible pathologies resulting from bad eating habits and promote good habits with food and physical activity regular. The team of Dietitians of London clinic in Tarragona will make a check to the smaller, studying height, weight, body composition, body perimeters, calculation of BMI (body mass index) and for age percentiles. Also carried out an interview diet each child to establish habits of food consumption and frequency in the realization of physical activity.

In both cases, the club will be provided a report of the current state of the team and each child will receive an individual report.

Social commitment

Bavaria group is actively working for years in different social national and international actions that aims to improve the health and well-being of different groups.

Since 1995, Clínica Baviera supports NGO ’ s as blindness Stop organising solidarity trips in which ophthalmologists moved to countries in developing to carry out exploration and implement treatments for different pathologies of Visual correction. In addition, physicians collaborate in the training of local specialists in eye surgery techniques.

Also, every summer, the network of centres of Clínica Baviera in Spain is associated with different collective for the realization of our reviews children who spend their holidays in Spain with host families.

Other notable initiatives are the open days with free reviews to promote early detection of eye problems or the signing of agreements with local authorities and schools to carry out visual child health campaigns.

For its part, London clinic has collaborated with Médecins sans Frontières on his campaign “Pills against the pain of others” and has organised open days coincide with the world day of Diabetes and nutrition, with free consultations; among other initiatives.

Group Bavaria

Group Bavaria is one of the great Spanish health companies with more than 80 clinics in five European countries. The company’s activity is oriented to ophthalmology and aesthetics. Clinic Bavaria, only European ophthalmological society which is listed on the stock exchange, was established 25 years ago and is now a centre of reference in the field of refractive surgery and intraocular surgery for the correction of myopia, hyperopiaastigmatism, eye strain or falls, among others. London clinic is the unity of aesthetic medicine, cosmetic and reconstructive surgery and treatments of obesity group Bavaria. His medical team, formed by more than 75 medical specialists with more than 10 years of experience, has led to that clinic London will become the first centre of Europe to get the certificate of quality ISO 9001 2008 in all their specialities.