Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico CU Amecameca, Mexico
Special Issue Article
PEPITOMETRO: VIRTUAL PAGE TO COMBAT CHILDHOOD OBESITY AND OVERWEIGHT
Author(s): Alejandra Rodriguez Torres, Maria de los Angeles Maya Martinez and Yuridia Sanchez Repizo
Mexico occupies the first place worldwide in childhood Overweight and Obesity [OySP], in this context there have been multiple proposals to combat OySP, from invasive clinical models to food policies such as food labeling and calorie reduction in food, and even Thus the problem of OySP is increasing, so we devised a virtual page proposal which, through translation of the knowledge of experts in the area under study, we propose the creation of the Pepitometer, which functions as the diffuser instrument of the knowledge of styles of healthy life in this age group, through two parameters scientific awareness of knowledge translation and availability of information, this makes in children behavioral appropriation towards healthy lifestyles through the promotion of these contents in the family nucleus. It is worth mentioning that this page was piloted in a group of 300 children between 8 a.. View More»