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The tasting of healthy menu of Obesity Prevention Program in Molina de Segura has taken place on Thursday 10 June at the College of Education Child Paseo Rosales.
Attended by the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, the Director General of Public Health of the Region of Murcia, Francisco José García Ruiz, Councillor for Health, Lola Vicente Quiles, and the coordinators of the municipal health centers, Juan Francisco Puche and Emilio Menéndez Pérez Macanás, and other health professionals in health centers, the Hospital de Molina, the Medical Research Foundation, and representatives of parents of school.
All of them have shared a table with children 3 to 6 years of that school in a day of open doors.
The Obesity Prevention Program for Children and Youth Molina de Segura won the first prize of the III NAOS Strategy Awards 2009 of the Ministry of Health and Social Policy in Spain as the best program of healthy eating at school.
The award will be presented by the Minister of Health, Trinidad Jimenez, Mayor of Molina de Segura, Eduardo Contreras Linares, in a ceremony to be held in the Ministry of Health on June 17, 2010, on the occasion of the Fourth Convention NAOS .
Catering Courtesy Antonia Navarro, a supplier of public schools in Molina de Segura, attendees have tasted a menu identical to that it is for students, which includes: salad (tomato, lettuce, olives, etc.), A single dish of cod soup with meatballs (chickpeas, beets, potatoes, cod, etc.), bread, water and, for dessert, seasonal fruit varied.
That is, a menu prepared from the Mediterranean diet, as is done every day in schools participating in the Obesity Prevention Program in Molina de Segura.
The menu cost less than 4 euros per person.
In 2007, NAOS Awards were created four categories: school environment, family environment, business and health system, and with them is to publicly recognize projects and programs in these areas to encourage healthier eating and increased activity physics.
This year we celebrated the third edition of the awards and have performed more than 100 participants which include major government agencies of the country.
The imagination, the size and capacity of working professionals who participated in the program molinense are the elements that are drawing national attention on it.
The program's uniqueness lies in two aspects molinense:
Has formed a working group composed of 17 professional staff of the City Council of Molina de Segura, the two health centers in the county (Professor Antonio García García and Jesús Marín López), and with the collaboration of the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Education, through the Directorate General of Public Health and the Directorate General of centers, respectively.
Was carried out interventionist action on the menus of 21 of the 22 schools with changing room of the municipality and developing new ones ourselves with daily consumption of salad, traditional dish (one dish), bread and fruit, boosting consumption daily intake of fruit, vegetables and dishes of the Mediterranean diet.
After 4 years of experience has shown, despite much initial reluctance of some health professionals, educators and parents who have held numerous meetings with the appropriate methodology has been adapted for children without significant problems these menus healthy that are already part of their diet.
All this, combined with the large numbers by the municipality, where every day nearly 4,000 children eat school meals and where they have taken other actions in the program, as an anthropometric study where they are weighed and measured at 6,200 children (being a of the largest studies conducted in Spain by population), have drawn little by little attention from various segments, the first regional and then national.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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