Fundamental basis for a healthy child is a healthy and balanced with exercise. Physical activity is key to instilling healthy habits to last for the life of the smaller adult. Is desirable that our children make physical activity 60 minutes seven days a week.
Sports Medicine Center, which now has worked for three years to promote healthy lifestyles in children of our community, evidence of the program is sports and health “Vívelo Vive10. This program has reached to 280 HEIs in the Madrid Community and the total of 15,000 students and can be downloaded in full from the publication of the Center for Sports Medicine.
We are also working on the project EHYS, EU projects in which to evaluate the prevalence and predictors of risk of cardiovascular disease in children. Currently we are at the stage of data collection and summer of next year we can have a breakthrough.
Regular practice of physical activityplay a role in the prevention and treatment of various metabolic and cardiovascular diseases are the most common chronic (hypertension, obesity, diabetes type 2, …), osteoporosis, depression and certain cancers.
