Almost 60 percent of Romanian people are obese

Romania registers a high rate of obesity and overweight among the population.

Almost 60 percent of Romanians suffer from these conditions of the modern world.

In addition, an increasingly number of children is facing the overweight.

Thus, 45 percent of children prefer sweets instead of vegetables, fruits and dairy, and over 40 percent have iron deficiency at one year old.

In order to draw attention on the proper alimentation of the child until the age of two, the National Society of Family Medicine has launched, today, the campaign for informing the people on “the importance of nutrition in the first 1000 days”.

At the debate which opened the campaign, the president of the Romanian Society of Pediatrics, professor doctor Marin Burlea, stated that the 1000 days of the child’s nutrition begin in the prenatal period.

“We discuss about the period in which the pregnancy evolves and the woman’s health condition; she doesn’t have to be overweight, she must be well fed, diversified, she has to be receive calcium, calciferol and iron especially in the last part of the pregnancy.

“Regarding the period between 0 and 6 month, the essential element remains the breast feeding, following that in the period after 6 months until 1 year the diversification to be made, but the introduction of some aliments must be wise and right, so that an excessive evolution of overweight should be avoided, which can lead to dystrophy and malnutrition”, says Marin Burlea.

Translated by Alexandra Diana Mircea