"They just told you that you have diabetes" narrates, in the first person, the experience of a hypothetical sick teenager that allows both minors and their parents to know the different phases that his ailment is going to go through once discovered.
A guide that aims to "shed light and hope" and become a "useful and simple instrument" that complements (but does not replace) medical advice, as explained by the defender of the child in the community, Arturo Canalda.
The guide, which can be achieved at the defender's headquarters or downloaded on the web in PDF format, search in its more than one hundred pages to answer the initial doubts and fears that arise in the hospital, explain the feelings that minors andHis parents, and guide them on a day -to -day basis, especially once they receive hospital discharge and begin to control autonomously.
The guide intends to help minors to face the idea that they suffer from chronic disease and try to reorganize their lives to live with this ailment naturally.
Meanwhile, parents can better understand the feelings that their son is going through and know how to give him the support they will need.
Together with the Guide, Canalda and the president of Fede, Ángel Cabrera, they have presented the results of the "study on eating habits at the breakfast of schoolchildren in the Community of Madrid".
It follows that although the vast majority of schoolchildren (96 percent) have breakfast, only 7.9 percent do so in a balanced way (ingesting milk, cereals and fruit).
Cabrera has explained the importance of the first meal of the day being taken without a hurry and in an adequate environment -preferably in family and without television -, although the study reveals that 20.9 percent of schoolchildren have breakfast alone and 35, 35,3 percent in front of the screen.
In fact, many of the respondents (41.2 percent) know that breakfast is important to start the day with energy, although many of them admit that they would like to have breakfast better but they cannot do it for the rush or for not getting upWith enough time.
In addition, the survey -realized to 440 children from all over the region -follows that only 14.4 percent eat fruit in mid -morning, a percentage somewhat lower than those of those who eat industrial pastries -16.6 percent.
Both Cabrera and Canalda have alerted the high percentage of obese and overweight children (19 percent of children between 6 and 15 years), and have agreed to highlight the importance of education to learn to carry a healthy eating and includein exercise among their daily routines.
Cabrera stressed that the involvement of parents in education is essential, but also of public administrations, and more considering that obesity is directly related to diabetes.
Regarding the prohibition that the vending machines of schools and institutes contain industrial pastries, both have agreed that although this measure may be necessary, more important than prohibiting is to educate minors to eliminate these products from their diet.EFE
