Obesity and stressed "the relationship between genes

The boticarios, key players in nutrition education
The CGCOF affects every age group deserves separate attention, and to more than harmacists who went to a new edition

of the National Conference for Food, organized by the school and CGCOF Tarragon. The message

conveyed to the audience was clear: the company considers the pharmacist a nutrition educator,

but there is increasing need to "adapt" the councils to the personal situation of each patient.

The National Conference of Food served to highlight the figure in the pharmaceutical nutritional

issues.
According to data from the General Council of Colleges Pharmacists (CGCOF), are received every

year in pharmacies Spanish ten million consultations on issues related to food, some questions

that go beyond those on healthy eating habits and interactions between drugs and food .

These data by themselves justify the conclusion of a new edition of the National Conference for

Food, which took place in Tarragona between the past , under the theme "Food, age

and health." A slogan that sums up the objective of the event organizers, the very CGCOF and COF

Tarragona as host agency, which is none other than the pharmacist to be able to resolve all

queries on food they raise patients.

All this without age or personal situation of each one of them is a handicap for this purpose.

"Every age group deserves special attention and tips different," says Consuelo de la Riva, vocal

feeding CGCOF.



The elapse of the three-day event seemed to follow a parallel with the actual cycle of life.

Thus, the inaugural conference on Thursday was devoted to the analysis of feeding babies. In this

connection, one aspect seemed to be clear on this opening day: the importance of recommending

pharmacies from breast milk as food "almost unique" in the first months of life.

The scientific arguments in this area were provided by Ricardo Closa, a member of the Neonatal

Unit at the University Hospital of Tarragona Joan, through the results of the study "The EU

Childhood Obesity Project, conducted at children in five European countries (Spain between

them). "Breastfeeding has been associated with a reduced risk of obesity later, while the high

protein intake during childhood is related to the appearance of high body mass index in the

future," he said.

More important is whether the councils pharmacists in the so-called "complementary feeding" of

the baby, because this kind of Juvenile occupy much space on the shelves of pharmacie
One of the most curious thereon as described Tormo Ramon, a member of the Hospital Quirón

Barcelona, which called for "pharmacists exercising in wet regions of Spain should recommend

harder administration of vitamin D to children for a few years age, to cover deficits of sunlight

in winter months. "



The symposia on food in adolescents and adults focused the day on Friday. In the case of the

former, unfortunately, the influence or the scope of the media and advertising is much greater

than that which can be exercised today pharmacist in them. However, according to Salvador Zamora,

a professor of Physiology at the University of Murcia, it is possible and necessary to reverse

the situation and that "in this group is where it is most manifest what may be the great epidemic

of twenty-first century: obesity."

The expert recalled that the lifestyles of adolescents "are those of the sedentary lifestyle,

which should be regarded as a disease for all the consequences that can have on health."

Obviously, he supported the healthy eating habits, but emphasised that obsessed to the limit for

healthy eating "also produces health disorders, such as Orthorexia."

In connection with these habits, took special mention in the debates of the day closing ligths

products and so-called 'miracle product' due to the erroneous perception that many consumers have

about them. "The abuse of these products not only will not help reduce weight, but it can help to

increase it," warned Francisca Perez, a professor of physiology.



The closing conference, "Nutrigenomics and personalized nutrition," was conducted by Alfredo

Martinez, a member of the Institute of Food Science Pamplona, which affected neither food nor

diets or councils, have equally in patients .

It focused on obesity and stressed "the relationship between genes and body mass," and recalled

that the genetic study of the individual "would prescribing personalized recommendations

regarding the nutritional advice or pharmacological treatment."