D’après une étude de la faculté de médecine suédoise, Karolinska Institutet, les déjeuners nutritifs à l’école et l’interdiction des sucreries et des boissons sucrées peuvent contribuer à réduire le risque d’obésité chez les enfants.
« Our results show that programmes to reduce the increasing rate of obesity can be carried out within the schools’ existing budgets, » said Karolinska Institutet Professor Claude Marcus, leader of the STOPP research project (Stockholm Obesity Prevention Project).
The project studied six- to ten-year-old children at ten schools with recreation centres. Half of the schools ran a healthy diet programme removing all pastry, sweets and sweetened drinks from their premises and giving children the option to choose lower fat and more fibre-rich lunches.
The project outcomes show that, after four years, the relative number of overweight or fat children fell by 6%, from 22 to 16%, in the schools that had opted for healthy diets, and increased by 3%, from 18 to 21%, in the others.
« We also interpret these results to mean that clear regulations in schools can help parents to set standards for their children and improve dietary habits at home, » added Professor Marcus.
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