Child Obesity In Mexico And The Importance Of A Good Diet

Child obesity in Mexico and the importance of a good diet

Introduction

Food is undoubtedly the greatest priorities and needs of the human being since you have a reason, you live for eating and you die by not doing so, through this text it is planned to evaluate this process and the relationship that this hasHabit with the Mexican population, more specifically with the child population being this one of the most damaged, since it is in the age where it depends on someone older and they do not have the means or economic possibilities of becoming a food livelihood by itself, analyzing the two extremes of situations, you can notice the different cases and become aware that Mexico is poorly informed on the subject, there is a lot of malnutrition on one side but also on the same balance at the other extreme we are livingIn a place where childhood obesity occupies and monopolizes life and day to day of the country, we are the country with more "chubby" children.

Mexico over time has been characterized by the consumption of junk or junk food, we are the number one of soda and flavor waters knowing that both contain an essential amount of sugars, corn and flour fruits also representAn important role in our lives, the average Mexican at least once a day consumes the famous "papitas", we create awareness and begin to nourish ourselves with our heads and not with appetite ..

Goal

Mainly raise awareness among the father of the bad food consumption that is leaving children how habit, now, you can hear very raw and even cruel but eradicate the diseases and discomforts that the being a “fat” person, although of course of course, there are exceptions and there are people who are healthy despite the overweight, but if we create a food routine that gives us the ability to have a country with better numbers regarding the amount already has of people with this food, it would be something exceptional, and what better way to achieve it than to start from childhood, stage in which adults depend on us, if the person is educated and taught to adequately nourish themselves in the future we will have a healthy adult,or at least the amount of diseases that are largely overweight would fall considerably because of the overweight.

The information shown by the text is based on surveys and interviews that were largely made to the population under 15, through the results we can see that we fail when it comes to feeding ours.

Research

In Mexico there are more than 7 million people hungry. However, our country suffers from the big problem of obesity. Bad eating habits in the country, as well as the entry of Fast Food and junk food in recent years, has made Mexico within the first places in the world in obesity.

Although Mexicans are based on cereals- trigo, rice, oats- highly recommended in diets, Mexican eating habits are unhealthy. The reason is that, along with corn -based foods, Mexicans consume daily foods with high fats such as oils, butter, mayonnaise, creams, butter, jams, as well as sugar, very little recommended for a diethealthy. An average Mexican family allocates 30% of its food spending classified as carbohydrates, calories and fats, which they consume daily.

Mexicans are the first worldwide cool consumers, 163 liters per year, seven times more than the average according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Each Mexican eats 34 kilograms of bread, 70% of this consumption is white bread and the rest sweet bread, cookies, cakes, among others, according to data from the National Association of Professional Suppliers of the PAN, pastry industry and the like (appropriate). The poorer is a family, the more carbohydrates, calories and fat.

According to data from the Secretary of Health (SSA) in Mexico there are more than 43 million people with obesity and overweight problems. This problem affects 72% of women, 66% of men and 26% of children. The consequences are in sight: the deaths related to obesity represent 10% of the total death of the country. In addition, the mortality of young people from 25 to 35 years with obesity problems increases 12 times compared to the rest of the population. Finally, 3 of 4 beds from hospitals in the country are occupied by patients with some disease related to obesity.

The consequences are in sight: the deaths related to obesity represent 10% of the total death of the country. Obesity also affects the country’s labor productivity, since 25% of labor disabilities are due to overweight conditions. At the same time, the expenses that families make before this disease are between 22% and 34% above family spending. At the national level, government expenditure for obesity amounted to 80 billion pesos according to the National Institute of Public Health, which represents around 2 and 3 percent of the Gross Domestic Product.

International Mexico is within countries with the greatest problems of obesity in the world. According to data from the Organization for Economic Growth and Development (OECD) Mexico is the second country with the adult and children with the highest overweight in the world, only after the United States. The average obesity rate of OECD members is 18.4%, while countries like India, Indonesia and China have a problem of obesity in less than 3% of its population. In the case of Mexico, a 32.4% of its inhabitants have overweight problems. This problem in the country has been aggravating in recent years. While in 2000 in Mexico 25% of (GIL, 2015) the population had with obesity problems, for 2012 this population had exceeded 30%.

Childhood obesity and prevalence in Mexico

The classification of children and adolescents who have normal weight, overweight or obesity is carried out in accordance with the BMI proposed by the Disease Control and Prevention Center (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). For the classification of BMI, age and gender are taken into account. Children between 5 and 85 percentile are defined as normal weight;between the 85 and 95 percentile, as overweight children;and with a percentile ≥ 95, as children with obesity. The childhood obesity epidemic has led to a parallel increase in the prevalence of pediatric forms of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes (DT2) and high blood pressure, which a few years ago were typically adult diseases.

The 2016 half -way health and nutrition survey has reported a combined prevalence of overweight and obesity in the school population of 33.2%. The prevalence of overweight was 17.9% and obesity, 15.3%. The most current data regarding overweight and obesity (sp + o) in Mexico are: in girls < 5 años, del 5,8%, y en niños, del 6,5%; en escolares niñas, del 32,8%, y escolares niños, del 33,7%; en adolescentes mujeres, del 39,2%, y en adolescentes hombres, del 33,5%. El aumento en la obesidad infantil y la prevalencia de sobrepeso y obesidad se observa durante la escuela primaria. Cuando los niños ingresan en primaria (seis años), la prevalencia promedio de sobrepeso y obesidad es del 24,3%. Sin embargo, a los 12 años, cuando están concluyendo primaria, su prevalencia se incrementa al 32,5%, lo que refleja 12,2 puntos porcentuales de aumento

Food and physical activity pattern in Mexico associated with childhood obesity

The overweight, obesity and diabetes panorama in Mexico is partly explained by the nutritional transition that the country experiences, having as characteristics the westernization of the diet, in which:

• Increases availability at low cost of processed foods, added with high amounts of fat, sugars and salt
• Increases the consumption of fast food and food prepared away from home
• The time available for food preparation decreases
• It significantly increases the exposure of advertising on industrialized foods and products that facilitate daily tasks and people’s work, which decreases their energy expenditure
• Increase the supply of industrialized foods in general
• significantly decreases the physical activity of the population.

The habits adopted at very early ages persist during adulthood. Several studies have shown that children and adolescents with high consumption of fruits and vegetables have twice as a probability of 8 stick to healthy recommendations after increasing fiber intake and reducing saturated fatty acids and salt in adulthood in adulthood. Additionally, if the consumption of sugary drinks has been established during childhood, its intake tends to increase in adulthood. In a study conducted in 7.983 Mexicans, of which 2.753 were children, it was found that only 14-16% of children covered the fruits and vegetable intake recommendations (> 320 g/d) and only 22-19% do not exceed the recommendations of the intake limit of sugary drinks(< 48 kcal/d) y el 14% no excede las recomendaciones de la ingesta de grasas saturadas y azúcar añadido (< 160 kcal/d). En otro estudio que incluyó 8.252 niños mexicanos de ambos sexos con una edad de cinco a once años, se evaluó la asociación entre los patrones dietéticos en el sobrepeso y la obesidad. Se identificaron cinco patrones de alimentación:

1. Rural pattern (characterized by omelette and legumes)
2. Sweet cereal pattern and corn preparations
3. diverse pattern (with the greatest amount of vegetables, fruits and meat in relation to other patterns and high in sugary drinks)
4. Western pattern (characterized by sweetened drinks, fried foods, cake and sweet cereals)
5. whole and sweet milk pattern.

It was found that sweet cereal patterns and corn preparations and the western pattern are associated with overweight and obesity in school children. In general, the Mexican population has a diet rich in food -rich foods (such as corn, wheat and its different varieties). The daily consumption of corn tortillas has been estimated at approximately 325 g, forming part of 70% of the calories and half of the proteins and the availability of the starch content in the tortillas has been estimated between 63-73% (comparedwith 80% of white bread). In addition, Mexican obese children have consumed more typical foods such as tamales, sopes and tacos, made with corn or vegetable flour and oil or animal fats or fatty fats.

Mexico is the first largest consumer of sodas in the world and also consumes a large amount of sugar -aromatized waters ("fresh waters"). The proportion of families that buy sodas has increased over the years, as well as the per capita milliliters consumed. The 2008 School Health Survey placed soft drinks among the five most consumed products in the country’s primary and secondary schools. On the other hand, the National Institute of Public Health of Mexico revealed that, as declared by the children, only 28.1% of its total consumption of liquids corresponds to water or infusions without caffeine or sugar, against 44% corresponding toHigh caloric value drinks.

The National Half Camino 2016 (10) Nutrition (10) Nutrition Survey (10) indicated that 61.9% of schoolchildren (5-11 years) consume snacks, sweets and desserts, 81.5% consume non-dairy drinks sweetenedAnd a little more than 20% consume vegetables.

Physical activity has an important role in the maintenance of healthy nutritional status, while sedentary lifestyles are a risk factor for developing obesity and its comorbidities. Western societies (including children) show an increased trend towards sedentary life styles, which includes resting, watching television, traveling to school and perform less physical activity. The time that Mexican children in front of a screen. In addition, the transmitted advertising is related to food and high drinks in saturated fats, sugars and sodium. In Mexico it has been found that, of the total advertising on television, more than 64% corresponds to products that do not comply with any standard in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Health of Mexico.

The eating habits develop at very early ages and persist during adulthood. Several studies have shown that children and adolescents with high consumption of fruits and vegetables have twice as probability of sticking to healthy dietary recommendations with adequate fiber intake, saturated fatty acids or salt in adulthood (36,43). This is important if from childhood is taught to consume food with a healthy profile in relation to the fiber and antioxidant content.

conclusion

We live in a country with an impressive food diversity, with lands capable of giving us the best fruits, grains and impressive quantity of proteins, vitamins, minerals, we are not aware of the golden source we have, we can carry a correct diet based on The fruits that our agriculture gives us, instead we prefer the use of "garbage" food, lipids, fats, the famous fast food, which in the long run bring us only problems, and they have always made us see the things of Way wrong making us believe a long time that if the child had no round shape or was "slap" he was not a healthy or beautiful child, all the bad habits that we instill in our children become null and without credibility when in the future those themselves Infantes suffer from cardiovascular diseases, sugar, diabetes and young people die due to problems that knowing this information about food and nutrients that the body needs They could avoid such deaths.

Mexico is in favor of incredible misinformation or perhaps only disinterest in being well on the part of the population, studies show results that are to be scared in all of us are in red numbers, if we do not start acting every time they will be more than evils, the children, the childrenThey are the main victim, you can live well and happy just eating what is necessary, to eat to fill is as a fool than to leaf through a book without stopping to read it, the enemy number one of a Mexican is himself himself.