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Feeding your children. Healthy nutrition from infancy to adolescence
Feeding your children. Healthy nutrition from infancy to adolescence
Obesity and overweight are epidemic and characters. It is a disease with serious consequences in adulthood that begins in childhood: 26% of children and youth of our country are overweight and almost 14% are obese. But even more disturbing is the trend exhibited by this sickness.
There are many reasons that led to this situation. First, our country has undergone great changes in recent decades that have impacted greatly on the type of food. Traditional diets have been replaced with diets with higher energy density, which means more fat and more sugar added to food, coupled with a decrease in consumption of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. In addition, these dietary changes combined with lifestyles that reflect a reduction in physical activity at school and during leisure time. Read the rest of this entry »