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The presentation Health Program Fifty-Fifty, developed by the Ministry of Health, through the Spanish Agency for Food Safety (AESAN), and Science Foundation-Health and Education (SHE), promoted by Dr. Valentin Fuster, took place Monday May 20, at the Plenary Hall of the City of Molina de Segura.
Attended by the Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, Councillor of Health, José Antonio Carbonell Contreras, the Head of the NAOS-AESAN strategy and team member training program, Carmen Villar Villalba, the NAOS Strategy Technical Advisor -AESAN and member of the program implementation team, Maria Angeles Dal Re Saavedra and Emilia Gómez Pardo, SHE Foundation member and coordinator of the Program team.
Health Program Fifty-Fifty is the first performance of the Observatory of Nutrition and Obesity Study, which was presented by the Ministry of Health in June 2012 and led by Dr. Valentin Fuster.
To carry it out, have been invited to participate to seven Spanish municipalities, one of which Molina de Segura.
This initiative aims to improve health in adults 25 to 50 years, helping them to improve their health habits and self-manage their major cardiovascular risk factors: overweight / obesity, sedentary lifestyle, smoking and hypertension.
Fifty-Fifty will be presented at the headquarters of the Ministry of Health in Madrid on July 18, where they report on all its features.
By prior, today visited the municipality representatives of the Ministry and SHE Foundation to organize the run, meeting with the Mayor of the town, as well as representatives of various social groups, associations and social and health care centers in the municipality.
This program and its innovative methodology have been piloted in 2012 in Cardona (Barcelona), obtaining a satisfactory results: 1 in 4 participants stopped smoking, 1 in 2 reduced weight and 7 of 10 were more than 150 minutes of exercise week.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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