The obsession with muscularity and overall fear of overweight become important in many sectors of the population, so that national health and nutrition surveys reported prevalence of disordered eating, particularly in young people.
A study of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM) reveals that between 6.0 and 7.0 percent of students in their units Atzcapotzalco, Iztapalapa and Xochimilco has disordered eating and one in three or four fears obesity and overweight.
Also, about 70 percent of women have dissatisfaction with their figure, while among men 30 percent want a slimmer figure and another 30 percent prefer a thicker figure.
In this context, the institution mentioned in a statement that the project develops, with elements of public health intervention to prevent disordered eating behavior.
"It is here we address the problems, but we do seek to prevent them from a perspective of community health", which are the students themselves, who instructed during training and degrees in nutrition, also have the elements to deal with the problem explained the coordinator of the Master of Social Medicine at the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM), Alberto Rivera Marquez.
The purpose of this project is to develop and train teams of students nutrition undergraduate and graduate students, especially in the Master of Social Medicine and Public Health doctoral and other graduate students.
This, to jointly preventive actions are carried out, in the sense of "speak out in favor of a healthy body acceptance, we seek at all times that people do not have an obsession for aesthetic ideals of beauty, thinness, nutrition, beauty, simply because they are impossible to achieve. "
While there is a very important problem of obesity and overweight in the country, with 70 percent of the population that suffers, so is that since the government has sought optical attack the problem blaming the individual of his disease he explained the doctor.
Dr. Rivera Marquez, who works with staff from the National Institute of Psychiatry Ramon de la Fuente Muñiz (INPRFM) in the draft Prevention of eating behavior disorders, particularly the line of body acceptance, said he has tried to address the problem generating fear, terror obesity among the population.
"The messages and campaigns designed from official circles, and even ways to teach them about food, nutrition, health and associated careers, have an element of individual responsibility," said university researcher.
He added that are public health actions, although many of these are only based interventions seeking that individuals are responsible for their own illness or that they are the only ones who do things to prevent and deal with it.
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