Recomendaciones Nutricionales para niños y adolescente - Guía para el profesional

American Heart Association, Samuel S. Gidding, MD, Chair, Barbara A. Dennison, MD, Cochair Leann Birch, PhD  Stephen R. Daniels, MD, PhD, Mattew W. Gilman, MD, Alice H. Lictenstein, DSc, Karyl Thomas Rattay, MD, Julia Steinberger, MD, Nicolas Stetter, MD, Linda Van Horn, PhD, RD.

Dietary Recommendations for Children and Adolescents: A Guide for Practitioners. Pediatrics 2006; 117: 544

Resumen

La American Heart Association (AHA) realizó una actualización de sus anteriores guías alimentarias para niños. El artículo resume l a información actual disponible sobre nutrición como prevención de enfermedad cardiaca en  niños, y propone recomendaciones para la prevención primaria y primordial de la enfe rmedad coronaria empezando a temprana edad. Es importante destacar la relevancia que se l e otorga en este documento a la nutrición en los primeros años de vida, incluyendo el período fetal. 

Introducción

Se estima que entre el 75 al 90% de la epidemia de enfermedad cardiaca está relacionada con dislipidemia, hipertensión, diabetes, consumo de tabaco, inactividad física y obesidad, siendo las principales causas de estos factores de riesgo malos hábitos que incluyen una pobre nutrición. El proceso de ateroesclerosis comienza en la infancia, culminando como un factor de riesgo relacionado con el desarrollo de la placa vascular en la tercera y cuarta década de la vida. Una buena nutrición, actividad física y ausencia de consumo de tabaco, contribuyen a disminuir el riesgo de prevalencia e incluso retrasar o prevenir la aparición de enfermedad cardiaca. Esta observación ha establecido el concepto de prevención del desarrollo de los factores de riesgo cardiovasculares  en primer lugar, denominada “prevención primordial”. En el documento se hace una revisión sobre la alimentación actual de los niños y se realizan recomendaciones sobre la dieta y la actividad física en los niños incluyendo el período de gestación hasta los dos años de edad.

Recomendaciones Alimentarias

Coincidiendo con las recientemente publicadas guías alimentarias del 2005 para los americanos las recomendaciones de la AHA, enfatizan:

• una baja ingesta de grasas saturadas, trans, colesterol, azúcares agregadas y sal.
• una ingesta energética y actividad física adecuada para mantener un peso saludable.
• una adecuada ingesta de micronutrientes.

A diferencia de las guías pasadas que recomendaban una mayor ingesta de grasas insaturadas, ahora se focalizan en un consumo adecuado de omega-3. Se hace hincapié también en la ingesta de alimentos ricos en nutrientes y fibras. Según estas recomendaciones los alimentos que se deberían incluir para una alimentación saludable son: frutas, vegetales, cereales integrales, legumbres, lácteos descremados, pescado y carnes magras (vacuna y ave).

Para la implementación de estos objetivos se sugieren estrategias en las tablas 1 y 2.

Ten Year Ban on Genetically Modified Seeds and Foods Takes Force Thursday

Peru’s executive has approved the regulations for the law that prohibits the importation, production and use of GMO foods in the country.

Violating the law can result in a maximum fine of 10,000 UIT tax units, which is about 36.5 million soles ($14 million). The goods can also be seized and destroyed, according to the norms.

The law, which was approved by President Ollanta Humala last year, is aimed at preserving Peru’s biodiversity and supporting local farmers, Environment Minister Manuel Pulgar Vidal said.

Peru’s previous administration, under President Alan Garcia, had supported the proposal to use genetically modified organisms. The initiative came from Peru’s private-sector export society, known as Comex, and strongly supported by Ministry of Agriculture advisors at the time. Their focus was mainly on boosting crop output for biofuels and .

However, then Environment minister Antonio Brack, whose portfolio was created by Garcia —basically paying lip service to requirements of the Free Trade Act with the United States— successfully fought the initiative and with environmental groups generated public awareness of the issues involved.   

Besides protecting an increasing export industry of organic and native products,  the ban protects Peru’s exceptionally varied native plant species —the import and use of GM seeds for corn, for example, would eventually destroy the different and multicolored species grown in the Andean region.

However, despite the fact that the ban will certainly protect Peru’s crops, more than 70% of the foods on the supermarket shelves in Peru contain GMOs, according to Crisólogo Cáceres, president of APEC, the association of consumers and users, in an interview with Gestion business daily.  Some are labeled as such, some are not —the consumer protection law says consumers have a right to know what they are eating or drinking but institutions within the government are working to extend the deadline again for a further year.

Aspartame - Real Poison

Food Matters. We are What we Eat!

Every 35 days, your skin replaces itself. Your liver, about a month. Your body makes these new cells from the food you eat. What you eat literally becomes you. You have a choice in what you’re made of. You are what you eat!

 That is the message from the founding father of modern medicine echoed in this brave new documentary film brought to you by Producer-Directors James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. 'Food Matters' is a hard hitting, fast paced look at our current state of health.
Despite the billions of dollars of funding and research into new so-called cures we continue to suffer from a raft of chronic ills and every day maladies. Patching up an over-toxic and over-indulgent population with a host of toxic therapies and nutrient sparse foods is definitely not helping the situation.
In a personal quest of discovery James & Laurentine together with a film crew and the editorial and production expertise of Enzo Tedeschi have set out on an independent mission to uncover the wholesome truth. The filmmakers have interviewed several world leaders in nutrition and natural healing who claim that not only are we harming our bodies with improper nutrition, but that the right kind of foods, supplements and detoxification can be used to treat chronic illnesses as fatal as terminally diagnosed cancer.
'Food Matters' seeks to uncover the business of disease and at the same time explore the safe, cheap and effective use of nutrition and supplementation for preventing and often reversing the underlying causative aspects of the illness. With the premise of the film being: access to solid information helps people invariably make better choices for their health. The 'Food Matters' duo have independently funded the film from start to finish in order to remain as unbiased as possible, delivering a clear and concise message to the world. Food Matters.

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Cancer and Premature Birth Fears Linked to fizzy Drink Sweetener

'A leading British expert has called for an investigation into serious health concerns over the artificial sweetener aspartame – after the EU food watchdog insisted it was safe.
The European Food Safety Authority has published a draft scientific opinion effectively rubbishing more than 20 studies which have identified potential problems with the sweetener, ranging from premature births to cancer.
The authority’s view will be welcomed by manufacturers who use aspartame and similar sweeteners in fizzy drinks such as Diet Coke, and diet foods consumed by millions of people every day.'

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