The World Epidemic Called Obesity

The world epidemic called Obesity

Introduction

Obesity or body fat increase is currently considered as a world epidemic, in adults, children and adolescents. Peru is not a country that is alien to this problem: “At the 35th Regional Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Food and Agriculture (FAO), developed in Jamaica, it was announced that Peru He had reached third place in overweight and obesity in the region, only behind Mexico and Chile ”(El Comercio 2016). Obesity is a silent, harmful and difficult condition to control in the country because unlike other diseases, annoying are generated in the long term generating other discomforts such as diabetes, hypertension, cancer, among others.

Developing

In Peru to control this problem, the State implemented nutritional programs that consist of almost total food subsidy in the poorest areas of the country, these are popular dining rooms, glass, milk, the Quali Warma program, etc. Food programs lack an initial technical design, as they emerged as temporary responses to specific problems and then have evolved to respond to other problems (Alcazar 2017: 203-204). Regarding these food programs, it has been evidenced that the conditions under which food are not have the appropriate sanitary measures and, in addition, do not meet the nutritional standards proposed by the MINSA. Likewise, there is no correct focus, that is, in most cases the beneficiaries do not meet the minimum requirements to remain in the programs.

It has also been proven that there is no good management in the distribution of food in the geographical areas intended.

In the following paragraphs I will develop my first argument whose reason is to raise the nutritional standards of food that is served in social programs will focus the beneficiary population, through 3 backups as axis. First, the quality of healthy foods in popular dining rooms will be improved and in the Quali Warma program. Secondly, the beneficiary population of food social programs can be statistically quantified. Third, the conditional compliance of the beneficiaries will be exhaustively verified.

First, the quality of healthy foods in popular dining rooms will be improved and in the Quali Warma program. In the case of popular dining rooms, local governments deliver certain foods, mainly carbohydrates, but almost never fruits and vegetables, which are used to prepare the daily menu, whose design and preparation is in charge of the same cooks and beneficiaries (ten and Saavedra 2017: 107). That is why you must make a modification in nutritional management in delivered foods; Because, these elaborate fueros programs to help the poorest areas of the country by providing foods that meet healthy food standards. However, the State does not meet these minimum nutritional requirements by causing new problems such as: obesity. With respect to the Quali Warma program according to the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) “The preparation of food in the Kitchens of the IEEE is carried out by mothers, in shifts, or with the help of a monthly fee, it is hired to a mother or another person who cooks. If the person in charge is a mother, she usually carries vegetables, potatoes and meat to complement Qali Warma products ”(2016: 106). Indeed, very similar to the case of popular dining rooms, for the most part, carbohydrates are destined, among other foods that influence body fat increase in students.

Secondly, the beneficiary population of food social programs can be statistically quantified. Focusing a specific area that meets the minimum requirements to be benefited from the corresponding food program would be appropriate. Because your situation can be analyzed to cover other problems that this set of beneficiaries suffer and thus improve its socio -economic situation in the poor areas of the country. However, according to economist Lorena Alcazar: “The focus of food programs faces deficiencies that are explained above all why many understand poor population in general, without using major filters, and because they are mainly based on geographical mechanisms, when, especially In urban areas, poverty coexists with non -poverty in the same areas or neighborhoods ”(2017: 212). Indeed, there is no consolidated filter to quantify beneficiaries; On the contrary there is an obvious usurpation of information, that is, not to meet the corresponding requirements.

Third, the conditional compliance of the beneficiaries will be exhaustively verified. In the development of the previous premise I approximated, subtly, the corruption that occurs in social programs; That is, in many cases people counterfeit documents, mainly, the economic level in which the person is with the objective of receiving the help that the State provides in the areas of extreme poverty. According to the vice president of the Inter -American Development Bank (IDB), Santiago Levy in each program that are operating to review the beneficiary registers, review the information and above all have updated information on the income levels of these people and based on that verify if Actually those needed are receiving the programs and if it is not the case to make the modifications to the list of beneficiaries ”(RPP News 2016). That is why constant supervision should be applied to the register of beneficiaries in order to reduce the injection of money destined to the selected area and provide it to improve other aspects lacking from nutritional programs.

conclusion

In summary, the problems facing the social programs described in my essay focused on targeted nutritional quality must be regulated by the Minsa and those in charge of receiving the feeds. It must be solved urgently because the main consumers of this state’s help are mothers and minor schoolchildren. These are vulnerable, mainly, because low -income people are the most sensitive to the increase in food cost (Diez and Saavedra 2017: 107). Due to what explained in my essay, the quality factor and targeting in nutritional programs are the first issues that have to be resolved to provide better nutritional care for beneficiaries.