Bao Gasol gives birth after suffering “food pressure” due to the Crusader campaign against obesity in childhood
Former basketball player Bao Gasol I denounced after receiving “Food Industry pressure” In an interview presented on EFE, which confirms that the entity he founded with his brother Mark in 2013 to stop obesity in childhood does not contradict her, but he wants to “part of change.”
This was revealed in the framework of the documentary screening “Child’s obesity. Pandimia ignored, by Movistar+, which turns into a global problem and silences it and requires urgent measures.
“It is clear that there were moments when we received messages, hidden, direct,” messages “or different forms of IndustryThe former baseball player admits.
The documentary is part of “PAU and Marc Gasol” in which Gasol works for more than two years; In principle, it would have been released last year, but they decided to “his heart” because it should be “better” to photograph such a multi -factor issue and at the same time achieving the required effect, which is “empowering, educating and opening talks” in society about obesity on childhood.
The problem deserves: 160 million children and adolescents live between 5 and 19 years with obesity in the worldFour times more than in 1990, and diabetes in this category of population was launched 40 %. By 2050, it is estimated that 360 million palace will exceed the appropriate weight.
The brothers personally participated in choosing their heroes, and European and American families that They open their eyes to the truth until that moment is unknownAnd a large group of experts who shed light on one of the greatest threats to global public health.
Spain is not strange to the problem, because One in three minors suffering from obesity or weight gain in our country. Moreover, here, as in other Mediterranean countries, the childhood curve in childhood has grown in the past decade with the same speed that the medium diet has been abandoned.
Covid-19 came to sharpen the numbers “Destroying the habits and emotional state of children”Increase in a stable lifestyle, use of screens and less sleeping hours.
To any aspects of social inequality, which greatly explains the expansion of the disease in the most vulnerable social and economic environments.
Then “there are very important industries that exist a day to the daily and have a great impact on building these environments”, and this is only in announcing some of their products that spend more than 900 million euros annually.
But he wants to explain that his entity only intends to “empower and raise awareness among society” about the problem. “We are not against the food industryWhat we want is to give alternative options, which provide healthier products to be part of the change. “
The change that is necessary to educate parents, is unknown several times that their children nourish, and increase teaching in nutrition, health and sports in educational centers.
In fact, they will start dealing with the Ministry of Education, progress. “I don’t know if it is a topic, actions, he started something optional, but it will have a positive effectHe emphasizes.
The positive will be to enhance safe spaces in societies so that children can play, active, social and leave screens.
However, greater than Gasol affects “a complex problem that is not easy to solve because this is not just a pandemic, but also an environmental crisis.”
