For many families, having a child fat, plump, and full of folds is quite an achievement, a sign that the child is well, strong and full of health. But experts in child nutrition do not think like. And more will they say that these families are very wrong. What matters is not the child is fat or thin. What matters is that the child is healthy. And that’s where we wanted to reach. At the last National Day on Obesity and Cardiovascular Risk Factors, held in Madrid, Spain, was diagnosed with childhood obesity as an emerging disease. Both in Europe and the United States since the nineties until today, the incidence of childhood obesity has doubled. Spain has become the fourth European Union country with the highest number of overweight children, presenting a picture of obesity in 16.1% among children 6 to 12 years, surpassed only by data from Italy , Malta and Greece. An alarming fact in a society that is in its “curriculum” one of the best diets alimentares the world: the Mediterranean diet, and in which only five years ago showed only 5% of obese children.
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