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Workshop buy healthy food, physical activity for pregnant women and mothers with infants, yoga and a technical conference are some of the activities presented tomorrow and will be launched in December
The City of Murcia, through the Department of Health and Sports who runs Felipe Coello, presents the launch of the European project 'Together: Healthy for you, healthy for the two', which aims to promote healthy lifestyles and diets pregnant and nursing mothers, especially disadvantaged and vulnerable groups women.
'Together' held for 10 months community work with women's groups, involving them in real action, like feeding workshops to promote healthier life styles, and enabling them to take greater responsibility in terms of their health and lifestyles to try to achieve sustainable change.
The health minister said that "the power during the preconception period, pregnancy and in the first 1000 days of life, is one of the factors that influence the health of the unborn child and is fundamental in the physical development and intellectual child ".
Hence the importance of being able to perform all activities that occur on Thursday and will start from December:
- Workshop for buying and healthy cuisine
10:00.
Classroom Health and Sense of the Market Square Veronicas.
- Aquatic physical activity for pregnant
From 9:30 am on 7 Municipal swimming pools of the center and districts of Murcia.
- Yoga for pregnant
10:30.
Beniaján Municipal Sports Pavilion.
- Physical Activity for mothers with babies
11:00.
Garden of the Malecon.
- Booth information and advice
10:30 to 13:00 hours - 17:00 to 20:00 hours.
Plaza de Santo Domingo.
Making anthropometry, detection of fetal heartbeat, advice on breastfeeding and healthy habits.
Among recipients of the pilot project, explained the Councillor for Health, "it was particularly work to reach women from disadvantaged and vulnerable socioeconomic groups (immigrants, women with low incomes and low education, teenage mothers, etc.), often They have limited access to services, to fresh foods and other healthy lifestyle choices. "
It has also highlighted the health minister, with this program, "a physical, mental and social balance by strengthening social ties among pregnant and lactating through all activities pursued".
Also on Thursday will take place the following days:
- Days Together Murcia
17:30 to 20:00 hours.
Round table.
Building auditorium Moneo.
Plaza del Cardenal Belluga.
- Opening of the conference by the Mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta Germán.
- Presentation of the project and preliminary data on the situation in Murcia.
Moderator.
Begoña Patiño Villena, Together Project Coordinator City of Murcia.
- Food and nutrients essential for proper health during pregnancy and lactation.
Berruezo Gaspar Ros, Professor of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Murcia.
- Driving change: healthy habits prescription from Primary Care.
Francisca Postigo Mota, Secretary of the Association of Midwives of Murcia.
- Environmental health in pregnancy and lactation.
Juan Antonio Ortega García, Head of Unit of the University Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca Pediatric Environmental Health.
To develop this project have joined six European cities: Murcia;
Manchester, UK);
Odense and Kolding (Denmark), Prague (Czech Republic) and Varna (Bulgaria).
The project has a clear Community approach that aims to reach women where they live, work, buy or move.
This means the establishment of a networking with health centers, health workers (doctors, nurses, midwives, pharmacists, nutritionists, etc.), social services centers and their workers, where to buy food, sports centers, restaurants, schools, workplaces, etc.
In this day of presentation of the program, it has had the intense collaboration of the Association of Midwives, University of Murcia, health workers of different health centers, Mercamurcia and workers of the third sector.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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