Obesity Threat Children in Europe, The News
As reported by the Committee on Food Safety, Health and the Environment in the European Parliament, on Tuesday (27 / 5), almost 22 million children in Europe of weight, and as many as 1.3 million more children will be overweight or obesity in 2010 the future.
The report was immediately called to be an effort to prevent obesity in children. Various concrete measures have been prepared, such as inclusion of more explanatory labels on each package, the improvement of the quality of food in schools and kindergartens, and the ad restrictions are not healthy eating for children.
Parliament in a report that also recommends a gradual and comprehensive approach to fight obesity, which causes a person to become vulnerable to disease.
The problems of obesity has caused the government to spend 6 percent of health costs directly, but it does not exclude the cost of direct (indirect costs) is much higher.
"Obesity is one of the most serious public health in Europe because of significantly increasing the risk of chronic disease such as heart, blood vessels, type 2 diabetes and some types of cancer," said the parliamentary report.
Because obesity in childhood is associated with adult obesity at the time, the commission and other shareholders should make efforts to fighting against them as a priority. "All the school curriculum should be designed to ensure that the caves of physical training and food become part of a balanced children behavior every day," the contents of the press.
The Committee also called other measures to prevent children becoming overweight, including restrictions on the use of all the European fatty acid made, and that consumption continuously fatty acid (more than 2 percent of the total number of Feed energy) associated with increased risk of heart disease and the blood vessels.
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