Actividad física y nutrición en la educación médica

Gustavo Tovar Mojica; Erika Viviana Ladino Marín

doi:10.35454/rncm.v2n2.005

Authors

Gustavo Tovar Mojica
Erika Viviana Ladino Marín https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5034-0818

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35454/rncm.v2n2.005

Keywords:

Exercise, Curriculum, Public Health, Noncommunicable diseases

Abstract

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide (70%). In Colombia, 178,000 people per year (73%) die from NCDs. Bad practices in lifestyles, especially physical inactivity, overfeeding and smoking leading to NCDs. In Colombia, overweight has increased in the entire population: 56.5% in adults aged 18 to 65 years and the percentage of people who meet the physical activity recommendations is only 51.3% in adults. Physicians and in general health professionals have a fundamental role to help patients and their families in the construction of a healthy lifestyle. The subject of physical activity and nutrition must be compulsory part of the curricula of health careers. For nutrition, instruction is recommended centered on 4 axes: basic nutrition, nutritional assessment, nutritional intervention and dietary treatment of disease. In physical activity it is recommended that the intervention focuses on four aspects: physical activity and fitness cardiorespiratory assessment, exercise prescription, counseling and behavioral change strategies and health of medical personnel. The experience of the authors is shown with the sports medicine and exercise program of the School of Medicine and Health Sciences of the Universidad del Rosario

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