Tips for school students in the new year to prevent diabetes

Sent diabetes endocrine Association Health and nutritional messages to students, on the occasion of the new academic year, in addition to the importance of cooperation between families and teaching staff to achieve health goals for students.
Health messages included the following points:

1. The importance of students to their body weights, review health centres if there is weight gain.


2. The importance of eating breakfast at home before going to school, health and nutritional benefits to this, and can include meal of milk low fat or fat free, fruit or fruit juice unsweetened, with sandwich bread of cheese or low-fat sour cream or eggs.
3. The importance of regular mealtimes, and the introduction of salads and fruit and milk or curdled milk, low-fat meals in Rob, it is necessary to eat fruits and vegetables with the colors green, red and orange and yellow.

4. The importance of reducing fatty and fried foods, soft drinks and sweetened juices, sweets, sugars, potato chips, as many of these foods contain many calories increases the risk of obesity, as well as a few content in nutrients necessary for physical and mental growth of students and strengthen the body, increase their immune resistance to illnesses as well as to strengthen their bones.

5. The importance of staying away from eating foods exposed and unsafe, and that may be contaminated, so as to prevent the risk of food poisoning.

6. The importance of organizing time, meals and participation in exercises, and activities that contribute to community building and maintaining hygiene and the environment.

7. The Assembly also invited all sports clubs for students to join them at affordable prices; and to encourage them to practice sports and called on students not to exercise any games in public squares, streets, to preserve their lives.

8. The importance of proper food handling and available canteen of school health, such as: low fat dairy products and juices are not chilled.

9. The importance of hand washing with SOAP and water several times a day, and dental care.

10. T e importance of maintaining physical fitness, reduce the hours watching
television or video or computer games to one hour per day on weekdays and two hours a day on holidays.

The Assembly also invited families and faculty committees and the adoption of healthy food patterns and be an example for students, and maintain their body weight within the health rates, exercise and not smoking, eating healthy food and balanced and low-fat.

In addition, the Assembly invited all schools to cooperate with it to organize exhibitions and healthy food to students and to the families and teaching staff to help students with diabetes, aiding them in situations of high and low blood sugar.
Tag : HEALTH, STUDENTS
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