El Aragon Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón), organized with the collaboration of Ibercaja Foundation this "Cycle of keynote lectures» with the aim of promoting the cardiovascular health of the Aragonese.

The cycle consists of five keynote lectures scheduled for the months of June, September, October, November and December, and covers different themes: sleep breathing disorders, dialogue about our habits, nutrition in early childhood, healthy aging, and finally our genes, all of them especially interesting subjects in the care of our cardiovascular health.PROGRAMME

• “Environmental factors that determine the early appearance of childhood obesity.”

Gives the Dr. Gerardo Rodríguez Martínez, Pediatric Service doctor at the Lozano Blesa University Clinical Hospital. Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Zaragoza. Researcher at the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón).

El excess weight during childhood and adolescence have increased progressively in recent years, affecting one in every 3 or 4 children in Spain. The treatment and prevention of obesity has become one of the most important challenges in the field of global public health due to its relationship, among others, with the risk of cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, musculoskeletal pathology and psychological disorders. Among the causes are environmental factors that from the beginning of life 'program' the individual towards obesity: excess weight of the parents themselves (reflection of genetic predisposition and family environment), excess maternal weight gain during pregnancy, maternal smoking, inadequate weight of the newborn, rapid weight gain after birth, type of feeding of the baby and, later, in the school stage, eating habits and physical activity. Most of the factors appear simultaneously, enhance each other and have a sociocultural and educational background.

• “From milk to a healthy weight: introducing foods with the head.”

Gives the Dr. Alba M. Santaliestra Pasías, president of the Professional College of Dietitians-Nutritionists of Aragon. Postdoctoral researcher in the GENUD group at the University of Zaragoza.

Complementary feeding It is time when they will begin to introduce foods progressively, along with breastfeeding, which will continue to be the main food until one year of age. Little by little the diet will be transformed, being habits established in early childhood are key, both in terms of food preferences and aversions, as well as the habits that are established around food. It will be essential to achieve a respectful and healthy approach to food, which is the basis of the diet of the little ones, and allows it to be one of the pillars of the prevention of diseases such as overweight.

• Colloquium that moderate:

Dr. Miguel A. Guerrero Cásedas. Responsible for the Ibercaja Prevention Service.

Dr. Belén Moreno Franco. Professor of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at the University of Zaragoza. Researcher at the Aragón Health Research Institute (IIS Aragón).

*Is essential requirement to be registered in the activity to be able to attend.

Location:
Ibercaja Patio de la Infanta. Saragossa
San Ignacio de Loyola, 16. Zaragoza (ZARAGOZA)