viernes, 13 de enero de 2012

Food habits of physical and sports practice

    Dietary habits, no doubt, are one of the most important in school age. The need for the child to cover all their nutritional needs is the main objective to get everything you want later. In physical practice sports have all the nutrients in the body is essential to avoid potential problems such as: dizziness, fatigue, tiredness, etc..
  Food is important for subsistence, but food intake does not mean you make good food. There are nutritionists and specialists who have more knowledge on this subject and come to them must be the priority if we see something wrong with feeding our children.
  The importance of creating healthy eating habits in physical education will benefit our students, but should be at home, and parents, the first who should consider this aspect to avoid diseases or disorders such as:
- Obesity: Avoid excessive consumption of sugars, fats, alcohol and sports.
- Disease of the circulatory system: Reduce intake of foods rich in cholesterol and fatty meats and cheeses, eggs, animal fats and oily fish.
- Cancer: Do not use oils that have been used several times and smoked foods. Stimulate bowel movements, eat foods high in fiber ...
- Bulimia: The person has episodes of binge eating, followed by a deep sense of guilt and sense of loss of control.
- Vigorexia: A condition characterized by the presence of an obsessive preoccupation with the physical and body image distortion. Addiction to physical activity.
Deficiency Diseases:
- Anemia: Take foods containing iron, such as red meat, legumes and eggs.
- Hypovitaminosis: Eat well with vegetables, fruits, milk and raw foods.
-Goiter: Consuming iodine in the diet. It is very abundant in seafood (fish and seafood).
  These are some of the diseases or disorders that are related to food. In our area we can help promote positive habits power but it's become apparent that this aspect should be treated in the family and if necessary with the help of nutritional specialists or psychologists. 

  In the next article we'll see what we can do from the area of ​​Physical Education to work on these aspects and help the playfulness of physical activity to instill healthy habits in students.

lunes, 2 de enero de 2012

Practice hygienic habits of physical and sports II

    In the previous article we gave a little touch of the hygienic habits that our students should have. On this occasion, we will focus on how to work directly with them in our area and how we inculcate these habits in our students, here are several suggestions:
- The student, after sports practice should change clothes and bring a toiletry bag with a personal towel, to wash. With the end of the session that will give each student a few minutes to go to the service grooming and inculcate these habits in this way in it.
- In our area we also have to instill in students an important practice in daily work such as washing hands, as a measure to prevent infection. At the end of the session by explaining the importance of washing hands and at the end of these sessions will go to wash them. This will help make the practice as at home everyday and so can perform the same way.
- The clothing for physical education classes must be sportswear, spacious and comfortable, that does not provide the student with a disability to cope and move during activities that are performed.
- For hygienic habits can also understand not only care habits of care staff but means, the social environment (city) or natural (field). Work with lectures by the consequences that may bring to littering and waste both.
- Use the toothbrush in some sessions would be another contribution to create healthy habits in children, especially when these sessions take place after the recess where students tend to eat snacks.
- Hydration is also important after physical practice sports during the task the student removes liquids that are necessary to recover from this.
These can be some of the hygienic habits we can work from the area of ​​Physical Education. These routines generated from home and continued in the classroom the children believe in self-confidence to interact with others.