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The Spanish Federation of Nutrition, Food and Dietetics (FESNAD) has invited the town of Molina de Segura to participate in its second congress, held from 3 to 5 March at the Palau de Congresos de Barcelona, to count its unique experience with the Municipal Program for the Prevention of Child and Adolescent Obesity.
Molinense delegation will be headed by the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, who is accompanied by the Councillor for Health, Lola Vicente Quiles.
The FESNAD brings together the top 10 Spanish associations of nutrition and every 5 years held its national congress.
The main contribution of molinense experience has been sitting at one table to the primary care professionals of the health centers, City Hall, the Public Health Directorate and the Directorate General of Department of the Ministry of Education for all together to design an action plan interventionist.
The plan has undergone a first phase, which has offered to high schools with the opportunity to join this program, and design a healthy menu based on the Mediterranean diet, which encourages consumption of vegetables and fruits daily and as traditional dishes of vegetables, pasta, rice and fish.
The program has achieved in just three years, the attention of various professionals and administrations across the country.
Currently 21 of the 22 schools with high daily serving these menus designed by the working group and consist primarily of salads, traditional dish (one dish), bread and fruit.
The participation of the municipality in FESNAD Congress will be held on March 5, under the title of Primary Involvement in the review of school menus: Experience in Molina de Segura (Murcia).
The conference will be given by the Health Center Coordinator Professor Jesús Marín Molina de Segura, Juan Francisco Menéndez Puche, who will come accompanied by several health professionals, taking advantage of the invitation, presented three scientific papers on various aspects of Prevention Program Obesity in the municipality.
The experience has meant that 100% of the approximately 4,000 children who come daily to the town a school canteen eat fruit and vegetables daily, without there being no case of resistance.
Furthermore, these children have recovered the use of traditional dishes, by the complexity of processing and the characteristics of today's society it is very difficult household consumption.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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