The fight against childhood obesity can not only be carried out at home, even if this is the area in which, above all, we must instill healthy living habits. Also the school has a fundamental role in the fight against childhood obesity from school, since most of the Spanish children will spend a large part of their daily work on it.
Childhood obesity is a very serious problem, in which many causes are combined so it becomes more difficult to control. Sedentary leisure habits, too passive ecolar days, the loss of free play in open spaces, and not recommended foods that are consumed in excess and are loaded with sugars and bad fats, have turned childhood obesity into a true epidemic.
Obese children, in addition to being able to suffer great psychological pressure, less agility and health disorders will be more affected in the adult life of heart problems, diabetes and cancer.
In this sense, I really liked the program that I have seen that the Mirasur de Pinto school is going to apply, which I consider an example of how the measures to fight against childhood obesity in the school environment should be focused.
This is the 'Oak Project' whose purpose is to promote healthy eating and living habits among its students. Two courses ago the center decided to implement a 'healthy breakfast' among schoolchildren for recess, based on the Mediterranean diet, and they retired from machines and from the industrial bakery cafeteria and snacks.
In order to make progress in this sense, they have proposed to improve the facilities of the courtyards, offering delimited spaces for traditional games such as hopscotch, rope, marbles or badges, to promote children to organize sports leagues and to offer them a guide so that they know how to evaluate their physical activity.
And it is that initiatives like this, which I think should be extended to many more schools, are basic so that it can be achieved Fight against childhood obesity from school.
