What would you say is currently the second most important factor in premature death in the world? Pollution,
infections, accidents, …? NO: the second factor is an inadequate diet (due to excess)! And the first one:
hypertension.
Healthy nutrition is essential for the proper functioning of the body, and to prevent diseases like hypertension,
but also others closely related to it, such as obesity, elevated blood sugar (diabetes), elevated harmful blood fats
or fatty liver … And all these diseases can appear during childhood!
Download this Fact sheet for parents, profesionals and educators working with children and adolescents.
Use it to disseminate and make awareness!
