Portal de Molina de Segura
www.portaldemolina.com
The City of Molina de Segura today introduced healthy menus in schools in the municipality to be issued during the current school year 2015/2016.
The town now has 33 schools with dining area (12 public schools, three private schools, five charter schools and 12 primary schools) and 32 of them participate voluntarily in the Programme for the Prevention of Child and Youth Obesity Molina de Segura .
This course incorporates the canteen service school Vega del Segura de la Ribera de Molina district.
Currently they have room service all except four schools in the municipality.
The menus have been prepared in digital format for viewing, viewing and downloading through the website of the City of Molina de Segura www.molinadesegura.es and each of the schools.
Also with the menu parents it is provided all the information in cooking techniques of each of the dishes chips, as well as nutritional assessments thereof.
The menus include daily recommendation for dinner (adapted to the food that day) and breakfast recommendations, recommendations for babies, gastronomic events calendar, etc.
New this year, after consensus primary care pediatricians, we have included a menu of soft diet of four days for children who go to school after illness.
The menus presented are the result of the efforts of many health and education professionals including pediatricians, family doctors, nutritionists, nurses, public health technicians and technical education, which together professionals from each school have designed, developed and supervised the work.
It is noted that currently 10 educational centers have dining commission presence of parents and children.
These committees have been able to introduce the participation of citizens in the process of preparing school meals.
The menus are designed with common assumptions, such as the daily presence of salad, traditional single dish stew Mediterranean diet and fruit for dessert.
Are menus 6 weeks with 30 different dishes with beans, rice and pasta, which aims to educate children about proper nutrition and to experience and learn to appreciate varied tasting meals outside the school canteen is going to be very difficult to know.
Menus also include kindergartens crushed diet for babies under 1 year.
This has been possible thanks to the consensus of pediatricians of the town you have set common guidelines for the introduction of food and recommendations, the result of which have been established in a coordinated way in all kindergartens menus specific to this age group .
It has also established snacks that will facilitate every day in these preschools.
The Ministry of Health granted to this program in 2009, the NAOS Award for best program of healthy eating in schools in Spain.
Moreover, the anthropometric study in the school year 2007/2008 took first prize for research in the National Congress of Pediatrics.
The anthropometric study released in 2015 showed a significant decrease in the prevalence of obesity of the town you have gone from 16.31% to 12.47% (down 3.84%)
The Mayor of the town, Eduardo Contreras Linares, wants to "congratulate all the professionals involved in this initiative and has resulted menus now have and can already be consulted on the municipal website".
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
Privacy policy
- Legal notice
- Cookies