EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS RELATED TO FIGHTING OBESITY AT PUPILS
EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS RELATED TO FIGHTING OBESITY AT PUPILS

Summary/Abstract: Obesity represents a complex action, characterised through increasing body weight because of the adipose tissue. In the past decades obesity has become one of the most frequent nutrition diseases in the world. The global growth of obesity prevalence and of the overweight, is due to both energy input enhancement with a high caloric density, rich in fat and sugars, as well as to a decrease in physical activity, as a result of sedentarism. A healthy nutrition and fighting obesity at pupils are public health priorities. Children and young people represents a very important target group, because early healthy food habits are the most efficient methods in preserving health on a long term. An unhealthy family lifestyle has negative effects on a harmonious development of the child and brings to an excessive food consumption, offering a fake feeling of safety and psychological comfort. In school we become accustomed to hygienic and healthy living habits. The educational process aims to make us become familiar with some rules and norms of the community children live in. An important role is the one of the parents, consultations and meetings, lectures and themes related to children’s health. In treating obesity we will be looking to get a negative energy balance, reducing the caloric intake, based both on diet and increasing energy consumption, through practicing physical exercises. Practicing physical exercises in the open represents an efficient strategy in preventing increasing overweight. Besides all these, psychotherapy has an important role. Through specific methods the psychotherapist will educate the child in view to adopting a healthy lifestyle, he will make him feel good in his body, he will make him appreciated and understood at his true value.

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