Only one in five overweight or obese people come to nutritionists to claim tips to improve your health, while the rest choose to follow the recommendations from the formulas 'miracle diets', according to Europa Press responsible for the Unit of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Son Dureta Hospital, Jose Moreira.
From this week, this together with more specialist endocrinologists began to spread through lectures and clinics, health centers in Mallorca, the messages of the national awareness campaign 'Lose weight, gain life', with the objective to advance the knowledge that a "multidisciplinary team, coordinated by the physician, is offering the best comprehensive treatment for people with obesity and overweight."
Moreiro stressed the need for this group "seek professional advice and do not trust to your problem fast results in miracle diets", which according noted, only "generate frustrations." So the campaign created with the aim to "teach healthy habits, which prevails in the treatment of diet plus exercise Mediterranean, as there is scientific evidence that this option is better than the intake of drugs."
For Balears, Moreiro noted that obesity has a slightly higher percentage than the national average (13.5 percent), more accentuada percentage difference in children (10 percent are obese in the islands, compared to 8.5 percent in Spain).
Therefore, the Government considers it necessary to promote prevention in schools, eg, cross-cutting disciplines "that can educate students about food, or enhancing the planning and monitoring of meals in schools. He thus believes that the Department of Health and Consumption autonomy plan should encourage a parallel with the NAOS strategy (Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Prevention) of the Ministry.
Moreiro Islands stressed that there is only a Obesity Unit, Hospital Son Dureta with multidisciplinary team, while three doctors Llatzer They also offer health insurance, although not fully devoted to the treatment of obesity.
150 operations for morbid obesity
This specialist noted as significantly important and urgent treatment of patients with morbid obesity. Thus, his unit has conducted over 150 operations of this type of patients in the last seven years, but stressed that if there were more surgeries at the hospital, could make up to 80 operations a year (in 2004 became 35).
In Islands, 27 per cent of people, aged between 35 and 75 years are obese (BMI above 30 kg / square meter), and 46.6 percent are overweight (from 25 to 29.9 kilogramos/m2) as Moreiro said, citing a study of Corsaib, which stresses that men have more overweight (48.3 percent) than women (33.4 percent), although these accumulate more obesity rate (29 per cent compared to 24.8 percent of men).
Childhood obesity
Moreira explains that especially important is the treatment of childhood obesity, which requires active participation of the administrations to solve this, by the "hype, the consumption of energy dense foods, the no exercise and hours spent in the TV or video games. "
Anthropologist Begoña Alonso, who works in this unit are Dureta, told Europa Press that "we are detecting very significant changes in eating habits until young adulthood. "There is less parental supervision of food you eat and drink the child within and outside the home. In most households, the choice of the family diet is replaced by the influence that children suffer from their peers or load of the media, "he said.
In this regard, he stressed that in adolescence, the control of the family diet is "almost nil, so most adolescents and children in developed countries do not meet dietary recommendations.
For its part, the nurse of the unit, Reyes-Alonso, emphasizes that in the case of morbid patients treated, there is "still aware of the problem by social services and it is urgent to resolve" because it is people "dependent". Thus, noted that only a proportion of these patients "are aided occasionally by a family member," because the majority has "self-care deficit, especially their health needs.
The unit dietitian, Elena Munoz, said the most important point to deal with an obese patient is "what to teach healthy eating habits, instilling the concept of diet Mediterranean, to learn them and keep the rest of his life . "If we correct these habits, get the patient to lose weight sensibly and carefully," the dietitian, which states that this diet "should not be very strict and rigorous," but "balanced, comprehensive, sufficient and appropriate to the patient . "You must customize the diet," he said.