Just two weeks ago we knew the request of doctors specializing in diabetes, nutrition and endocrinology about new obesity units in all Valencian health departments, but we did not know the work that the General Hospital of Valencia has been doing for a year, which shows that there is real interest in tackling overweight and childhood obesity in this Community.
The pediatric service and the unit against childhood cardiovascular risk of the reference hospital of the Valencian Community, offers a program in which children who have come to the clinic and show ailments caused by being overweight or obese, children who weigh more than recommended or very sedentary children, with poor diet and signs of a close problem of overweight, they are summoned in the hospital courtyard in the afternoon to perform, by prescription, gymnastics sessions.
They have a physical trainer and the attention of the pediatric service, their real interest is to prevent these children from suffering health problems at an early age due to bad habits of life, as we have mentioned on different occasions in Babies and more, overweight and Childhood obesity can lead to type 2 diabetes, hypertension, etc. The fifty children who are currently participating in this project, are constantly monitored individually, perform echocardiograms, while performing the activity they are monitored with pulsometers that allow monitoring the evolution, because the information is downloaded to a computer. They say that it is giving good results, many children already have 4-5 kilos less thanks to this "treatment" and the education about food that they also provide to parents and children.
Let us recognize that it is not the same thing that the doctor recommends eating healthy and exercising to be called to the health center to follow an effective treatment to prevent and cure the health of children. Of course it seems to us an excellent work that should be established in all the hospital centers, being a treatment like the one that other ailments may require. There is no better treatment to prevent certain problems than good nutrition and physical exercise.
