Identifying fat consumption, essential to avoid diseases in México: Issste / @drpedrozenteno @ISSSTE_mx >>>

#ISSSTE.- Learning to identify the necessary portions of food that our body needs is essential to improve and maintain healthy habits that strengthen the body and avoid developing or aggravating chronic degenerative diseases, such as diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, among others, that affect the population, said the general director of the Institute of Security and Social Services of State Workers (Issste), Pedro Zenteno Santaella.

In the framework of World Food Day, the head of the institute indicated that the staff of the medical units is trained to guide, support and assist the beneficiaries in ensuring their wellbeing. The great challenge and responsibility is to promote healthy eating to combat overweight and obesity.

She informed that Issste’s health professionals provide integral and personalized treatment to patients, through a multidisciplinary team made up of medical personnel, nutrition specialists and physical activators.

Laura Morales García, a nutritionist attached to the School of Dietetics and Nutrition of the dependency, explained that one of the greatest affectations in the consumption of food among the Mexican population is the abuse of fats and oils.

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