The AEP and the Supersana Troop encourage healthy habits in childhood

To fight against the worst enemies of child health that are, according to the Spanish Association of Pediatrics (AEP), obesity, sedentary lifestyle and viruses is born this new campaign Join the superpersonal troop. Discover your powers, that under the motto "Food, Exercise, Prevention .... Activate!" aims to help families.

Its mission is to raise awareness among families to adopt healthy lifestyles for children since they are very young. In this case, both parents and children are the objective to raise awareness about the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle from the early stages of life.

A campaign in children's format

Through comics, videos, microsites ..., which can be downloaded from the web, and social networks, the Álex character, apart from providing practical information on healthy habits around food, exercise and prevention. tell your stories to fight against the health villains that are Mr. Armchair (sedentary lifestyle), which traps children in front of television screens and video games, Mr. Glotonetix (obesity) who steals breakfasts, or the virus army commanded by Mr. Sarampión and Ms. Paperas.


In addition, children can download the characters to paint and pediatricians request a poster of Alex for your questions.

Super powers of food, exercise and prevention

1. The super power of Food: the importance of breakfast.
According to data from the Aladino Study 2013, of the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality, 43% of the students in the study had excess weight (ie, obesity or overweight). Of these, only 4.2% made a "recommended" breakfast consisting of dairy products, cereals and fruits, while 56.5% had only dairy and cereal breakfast, and 28.5% only dairy. Breakfast is an essential meal and has a prominent importance in the first comic of Tropa Supesana. Caring for the environment of food, that is, eating with the family and without television is also highly recommended.


2. The superpower of the Exercise. Minimum, one hour a day
Exercise improves social, mental, bone, cardiovascular and metabolic health. "Performing at least one hour of moderate or intense physical exercise in the child is associated with an improvement in the cardiorespiratory and muscular condition, improves the risk of obesity and overweight, increases bone mineral density, and improves functional health and cognitive ", summarizes Dr. Gerardo Rodríguez, coordinator of the Physical Activity Committee of the AEP.

Aerobic exercise, in equipment, fun, that incorporates the race and coordination is the most recommended for children. However, it is estimated that only 15-20 percent of Spanish children achieve the recommendations of physical exercise of the World Health Organization (WHO) to achieve a significant health effect in improving health.


3. The superpower of Prevention. It is better prevent!
Spain has the highest vaccination coverage, although it can be improved after 3 years of age. According to data from the Ministry of Health, "around 10% of children do not receive the second dose of MMR vaccine at 3 years, which protects against measles, mumps and rubella, 11% does not get vaccinated compared to the Tdpa of 4-6 years, a figure that reaches 23% in the case of the Td vaccine at age 14. Likewise, 1 out of every 4 girls does not receive the papillomavirus dose at 14 years of age " , remembers Dr. Moreno.

Other prevention measures that we should not forget are: wash your hands often with warm water and soap, and brush your teeth after each meal, follow the vaccination schedule to protect yourself from many preventable diseases.

Marisol New

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