Concern about overweight and childhood obesity is reflected day by day in a more noticeable way, experts know that it is necessary to act as soon as possible to avoid a future full of obese adults and afflicted by a large number of diseases related to these problems. More and more initiatives, studies or research working in this line. An example is the program PIANO (Intervention Program in Food and Physical Activity of Oscenses Children).
This program is developed by a group of specialists in child nutrition and various specialists from other areas that seek improve nutritional status and prevent the onset of obesity and overweight in Huesca children.
For three years, healthy and promotional health plans will be analyzed in primary school children subject to this program, especially those related to overweight and obesity, showing the results on the effectiveness of these plans at the end of the term.
The fight against overweight and obesity can be fruitless if you don't have an indispensable and fundamental piece, the parents. Therefore, they should promote more intensively educational programs for parents as well, since it is they who can fight more effectively against these problems.
Obesity is cultivated from the birth of the child, everything that parents do contributes to whether or not a child is obese, except when it is a certain pathology.
