2024-07-29 12:10:00
Training in healthy habits in the school environment managed to reduce the accumulation of fat in the abdomen during the first years of school age. This was found in a study published in the journal Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry(JACC).
According to its authors, National Center for Cardiovascular Research (CNIC) and the SHE FoundationThis is one of the largest contemporary scientific studies of health promotion in the school environment and with the largest follow-up of participants.
The conclusions are clear: early intervention on healthy habits during elementary school can be more effective than later interventions.
The work, carried out with the support of the “La Caixa” Foundationincluding 1,771 boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 12 from 48 public schools in The first lesson of the Society of Madrid.
The schools are divided into 4 groups: the first is made up of 12 schools which are developing educational training for health promotion around emotional control, nutrition, physical activity and physical and mental activity.SI!-Comprehensive Health Plan) in 6 years of Primary Education; Two other groups, also from 12 schools each, received the same intervention, but only during the first 3 years or the last 3 years of Primary Education, while the last group, the control, from 12 schools , did not receive any academic training.
During the study, detailed measurements of the cardiovascular health of the participating population from 6 to 12 years of age were made, including a series of markers of obesity and body fat accumulation.
These measurements are made at the beginning of the study, corresponding to the beginning of the first year of Primary Education, and then every 3 years, at the end of the third and sixth year.
The high rate in children affects almost 1 in boys and girls in our region, especially in the most vulnerable groups.
Lose first answer showed that, in the two groups of schools that received the intervention during the first three years, the participants showed a negative change in obesity measures, such as the body mass index, and especially in the fat accumulation measures at the level belly. compared to other groups.
The high rate in children affects almost 1 in boys and girls in our region, especially in the most vulnerable groups. “Schools are the perfect environment for the implementation of educational health promotion programs. Although there are many programs of this type, not many have been scientifically evaluated, and in most cases their results are not very encouraging or indifferent. However, any progress in this area can be beneficial if it is implemented on a large scale, especially knowing that this type of intervention does not have side or negative effects,” he said. Rodrigo Fernández-Jiménezco-investigator of the project.
“The results of this work suggest that interventions to promote healthy lifestyles carried out early, such as in the first stage of Primary Education, may be more effective than later interventions for the control of childhood obesity ,” he said. Gloria Santos-BeneitTechnical Director of the SHE Foundation and lead author of the study.
“With the experience we have gained, this year we have started a new study that will evaluate the effectiveness of the health promotion strategy in the school environment with the SI Program! based on rehabilitation or educational drugs during Primary Education. We believe that this strategy can be more effective by reducing the overload of teaching staff, an important figure in this type of interventions in the school environment,” he said. Valentin Fusterthe principal investigator of the study.
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