The National Government works in a comprehensive plan to strengthen the promotion of physical activity and balanced food in the communities of the country, as announced by the sector vice president for social and territorial socialism, Héctor Rodríguez, during a training workshop for communal facilitators at the headquarters of the Ministry of Education, located in Caracas.
As part of the pilot phase, the facilitators will apply anthropometric records and promote educational actions in Caracas communities, with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of assuming self -care as an individual and collective responsibility. Rodríguez points out that the health approach should not be limited to hospital infrastructure, but to include the impulse of preventive practices from the local environment.
The strategy seeks to face the increase in diseases associated with sedentary lifestyle and harmful food practices. Among the most frequent conditions are hypertension, diabetes, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disorders. In that sense, the Plan proposes to modify cultural patterns, reduce the consumption of refined flours, friedness and sugars, as well as encourage regular exercise as part of everyday life.
In spite of the difficulties generated by the economic war, the State has sustained food protection mechanisms through the Local Supply and Production Committees (CLAP), food houses, school canteens and family orchards, which are articulated with the new plan to guarantee conditions that favor the integral well -being of the population.
The workshop of communal facilitators was attended by the Minister of Popular Power for Sports, Franklin Cardillo; the vice minister of food, Jessica Ruiz; the president of the National Institute of Nutrition, Adriana Urdaneta; and the president of the Center for Studies on the Growth and Development of the Venezuelan population (Fundacredesa), ISIS Ochoa. The health and culture offices will be added to the execution of the plan, which is projected as a public policy of national scope.
Source: Press NOTE
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