The Municipal Center for Nutritional and Diabetes Care (CEMANUD), of DIF Mérida, incorporated the “Eat and Sowing Different” programs, “Meeting space of the Diabetes Education Center” and “Medication Exchange”, to its educational platform,with the aim of strengthening the good habits of food and health care of their beneficiaries.
Ileana Fajardo Niquete, Chief of the Department of Nutrition, reported that the "Eat and Sowing Different" program will be developed in preschool and primary schools where children will work with the promotion of the school garden, recycling and consumption of fruits andvegetables.
"This program is a cousin brother of" Eat and plays different "," he explained.The idea is that children have different activities that help them better understand the part of food and nutrition.
"The fact that a child knows what a garden or planting is, has many messages for them from the nutritional point of view," he continued.The best way to teach a child to have healthy and accessible foods is learning to sow and then cook something symbolic.
He pointed out that the meeting space of the Diabetes Education Center is aimed at the relatives of people with diabetic condition who, with the support of psychologists, will receive guidance to better understand the mood of those who carry the disease.
He said that people who have a relative at home who do have the condition, also require emotional support because many times they do not know how to react with their relative, but once they understand the situation, they help the treatment that the patient receivesExcellent results and, therefore, a better family relationship arises.
Finally, Ileana Fajardo said that the drug exchange program between beneficiaries of the diabetes program will allow those who have medicines that do not use the donates to those who need them, under the supervision of the doctor.
—Many patients inform us that they have medications in their homes, such as insulin, hypoglycemic, oral etc., that supply them in their clinics but do not use, which can be useful for those who do need them and that for some reason not theThey receive from their clinic- the nutritionist concluded.