The pharmacist, key role in the Council for good child nutrition.

-From the earliest stages of life they should promote healthy nutritional habits

-adequate food of children can and should be promoted from the pharmacies

-the pharmacist is the health care closer to the population and that mothers trust feeding their babies in a very high percentage, according to all recent studies

– according to the Alsalma study (feeding the health of tomorrow), developed by Almiron, 90 per cent of children aged 1 to 3 consumes more than twice the protein than needs really, what seems to have a direct relationship with obesity and overweight rates in years rear

Barcelona, March of 2013.- the pharmacist has a key role in the Council to parents to ensure adequate child nutrition ”, said Aquilino Garcia Perea, national member of power of the General Council of official colleges of pharmacists of Spain, during his speech as a moderator at the round table nutritional habits of Spanish children from 0 to 3 years: perception, reality, and management ”, sponsored by Danone Baby Nutrition and held in the context of the European meeting of pharmacy Infarma 2013 ”. According to this expert, Spanish children up to 3 years food has improved a lot in recent years, although Spain remains one of the European countries with the highest rate of childhood obesity, by which we must improve nutritional habits in the early ages of life. In this context, it is important to have specific studies that reveal deficiencies, excesses and infant feeding needs.

The study Alsalma (feeding the health of tomorrow), developed by Almiron 90 per cent of children aged 1 to 3 consumes more double protein that actually need which seems to have a direct relationship with obesity and overweight rates in subsequent years ”She says. In addition, this excessive protein intake is due to the consumption of foods that are not adapted to the age of the child, such as cow’s milk, and an intake of meat exceeding the recommended amounts. All these deviations can and should be corrected from pharmacies, even more so when children should take food tailored to their nutritional needs, since they are not miniature adults ”. Thus, the first three years of life are essential to educate in tastes and nutritional habits ”.

According to Aquilino Garcia Perea, the pharmacist is the health care closer to the population and that mothers trust feeding their babies in a very high percentage ”, according to all recent studies. So that must be the day of all the available data on nutritional habits in the early stages of life, with the aim of transmit clear and effective messages to parents ”. In this regard, never before has provided as much information on this aspect as it is now ”. In spite of this, the Spanish child population is located at the head of Europe in numbers of overweight (21.7%) and obesity (8.3%). Studies such as Alsalma are a fundamental step in the strengthening of the role of the pharmacist ”.

Infarma is one of the most important international congresses in Spain, with figures exceeding 20,000 visitors, 2,200 delegates and 170 exhibitors. In addition to the Symposium nutritional habits of Spanish children from 0 to 3 years: perception, reality, and management ”, Danone Baby Nutrition has participated in this important event with its own stand at the trade fair location. In its commitment to contribute to the improvement of the supply of Spanish children, the company maintains a close relationship with pharmacists, as well as collaboration with pediatricians and mothers own, collective all of them heavily involved in children’s health.

On Danone Baby Nutrition

Danone Baby Nutrition is a company that, under the program feeding the health of tomorrow ”, has the Mission of improving the nutrition of Spanish children through nutritional solutions, currently represented by the brand Milupa and Almiron.

Almiron is present in the Spanish market since 1975. Their formulas are based on the first investigations carried out in the field of child nutrition, which began in Holland in 1896.

Danone Baby Nutrition has the vocation to become a strategic ally of parents and health professionals offering the best products and services from pregnancy until the child age 3.

order to achieve its mission, Danone Baby Nutrition based his work on credibility, through clinical evidence:

-1,400 experts and researchers.

-more than 1,600 scientific publications that support the work carried out.

-35 clinical studies on infant nutrition published until 2010.

– 220 million euros invested in research.

-5 research centres specialized in child nutrition in the world (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Singapore and Holland); one of them dedicated solely to studying breast milk.