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It is unlikely that the world is a more important issue than the health of the nation, and the nation's health begins with the health of our children and of parents to nutrition

How to eat? What is the concept of the state policy in the field of healthy nutrition in Russia and other countries? As far as quality products consume our children in schools and kindergartens? To understand these issues is not easy. The more civilization flooding the Earth, the harder it is to maintain environmentally friendly products, stand guard over their health.

The press center of the publishing house "Arguments and Facts", a round table at which experts in the field of healthy food Norway and Russia discussed a number of important issues relating to food quality in child care centers.

- Child nutrition should be optimal, appropriate to the age of the child, its development needs, should include all major food components, including vitamins, minerals and essential substance of other groups, such as lipids, fatty acids, - said Natalia Shilin. - A lot of work must be carried out by Rospotrebnadzor, which is designed to control and quality indicators and indicators of food security. A very important component of the state policy in the field of healthy eating is the best part. Feeding a child should include a sufficient amount of protein, fat, carbohydrates, which are designed not only to meet its requirements for those substances, but also to give some leeway with the expectation of rapid growth and development of the child's body.

It not by chance in 1998, developed the concept of the state policy in the field of healthy nutrition. The government found it necessary to address this issue, because only about 15% of our children across the country were recognized fully healthy. In 2010, a resolution was passed which determined the need to develop and use in the diet of children and the general public, in addition to meat and dairy products, fish, fruits and vegetables.

Foreign experience

Jan Eirik Johnson in the discussion of a healthy diet shared the experience of the Norwegian authorities:

- Despite the fact that Norway - a rich country, we have seen an increase in the number of people who are overweight and chronic diseases. Our government has an active policy in the fight for the nation's health. In this regard, the Norwegian Ministry of Health developed a plan whose objectives are aimed at improving the nation's health, and increase knowledge about nutrition. Norwegian Directorate of Health is responsible for the strengthening of social security and health. He recently published a report, "Dietary recommendations for improving public health and preventing chronic diseases", I would like to introduce some of the recommendations from it:

1. On the day you need to eat at least 5 servings of vegetables, fruits and berries (based on one serving - 100 g).
2. Eat cereal every day.
3. Mandatory part of the daily diet should be a dairy.
4. 2-3 times (300 to 450 g per week) per week eat fish for dinner.
5. When selecting meat products give preference to lean meats.
6. Limit the consumption of meat products from red meat.
7. Instead of a solid margarine and butter, use cooking oil and soft margarine.
8. Try to choose those foods that are low in salt.
9. Do not eat daily drinks containing large amounts of sugar. Quench your thirst with water.
10. At least 30 minutes of daily physical activity allot.
11. Strive to maintain an optimal balance between energy coming into the body, and the energy consumption during physical activity.

Also, to help customers find useful products, together with the Norwegian Directorate of State Service for Supervision of food has developed a program of labeling. Currently retail products can be found with a "keyhole" that, when compared with other products of the same type have less fat, sugar, salt, dietary fiber and more than whole grains.

Hope Ryabukhina:
- The theme of baby food - very spicy. I am a very young mother, my child - allergies, goes to kindergarten, where, unfortunately, prefer preservatives and concentrates that are known to be very detrimental effect on the health of the child. (Confirmation of this - and a survey carried out on the site at the request of aif.ru weekly "AIF. Health." From 1851 people who took part in it, only 19% of parents are satisfied with the quality of food their child in kindergarten, and 47% - no. - Ed.) On our site, "Mom-ru" parents constantly ask the question: what to feed the baby, what products to choose from than they can be combined? Some - just in a panic: neither will the child, then immediately gives him a rash on the body ...

Tatiana Semenycheva:
- The rash on the body of a child - are not always a true manifestation of allergies. Especially in young children. As a rule, this is due to the immaturity of the baby's digestive system when he nedousvaivaet, nedoperevarivaet some products. It accumulates in the body, eventually they cause undesirable skin reactions, which are normally held to 1, 5-2 years, sometimes up to 5 years stopping. So rashes on the body of a child - is not a reason to keep him on bread and water. On the contrary, the more varied will be his food, the better. If questions arise, it is better to solve them, consult a doctor.

Tatiana Bystritskaya:
- In 1994 in Moscow, our office was established for the rehabilitation treatment of children with allergic diseases of the skin to find out what to feed them. As a result, long-term therapeutic and research work, we, together with the Institute of Nutrition have developed a special diet for children with various diseases - diabetes, allergies and so on. D. And in 2006 went to the Department of Health and Department of Education of Moscow with a proposal to create in schools and children gardens special health groups in order to feed the children According to our recommendations, which are already active in a number of pre-school institutions of the capital.

Fish Day

One way or another, but the conversation about health (including children) concerned diet of fish and seafood, around which there still exists a lot of different and often false information.

Jan Eirik Johnson:
- Fish is grown around the world, but the experience and skills are different in different countries. In Norway, the fish is grown along the coastal area, which stretches for thousands of kilometers. There's a cold pure water. In the sea there are huge network with a diameter of 30 m, to a depth of 100 m, 97, 5 and 2% water, 5% fish - is the norm for them. If the concentration of fish in the nets above, this creates a damage to fish and economics of farmers. It is necessary that the fish can swim in the networks.

What to feed the fish as this food safe?

Food is safe, even for a man. It includes elements of fish origin: industrial fish (small fish that are not consumed by humans), fish oil, fish meal, sunflower oil and other elements. Food has been very strict control, similar to the control of food for people.
Often I come across in the media misconception on what the fish are fed dyes. The fact that the salmon, which lives on the high seas has meat red-pink color, it is achieved the use of natural carotenoid astaxanthin.

Under natural conditions, the salmon gets its food as it eats shellfish. But salmon farms are synthetic akstonsontin with food, not because he paints the meat, so that the fish need it, otherwise it will hurt.

Another misconception is that the fish are fed with antibiotics and growth hormones. This is absolutely not the case now salmon differ good health and receives less than one percent of antibiotics. In accordance with international standards Norwegian growth hormones are used.

We understand the concerns of people in the field of healthy nutrition, so the Norwegian Export Council specifically fish annually organizes 2-3 press trips for journalists, experts and ordinary people in Norway, so that they saw with their own eyes how to grow fish in Norwegian farms.

With regard to the promotion of the use of fish products, the Norwegian Seafood Export Committee together with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Fisheries has developed a targeted program "Fiskesprell" (which means "vigorous man"). In this course, the staff of kindergartens and educational institutions are trained and get useful knowledge about child nutrition. They learn how to prepare food and curious fish with their children. The project was designed for two reasons: first - the fish and other seafood are excellent sources of natural nutrients; the second reason - the need to encourage and motivate children fish consumption because fish consumption is much less children than in adults.

Tatiana Bystritskaya:
- Many parents do not give the fish the children, fearing that it can cause allergies. And make a mistake. Fish - a very useful product. Just use it should be in moderation. We recommend you enter it in the diet of a child, starting with the year and, if it is well tolerated, use 2-3 times a week. Better - in the form of cutlets, meatballs.

Love Samsonov:
- In our country it is extremely urgent prevention of iodine deficiency. A fish - just one of the few foods that contain iodine. On average, 100 grams of fish provides 100 micrograms of iodine, which is a physiological need for child up to 2 years.

Natalia Shilin:
- To develop the child's body (especially his brain, nervous system, visual analyzer) needs a high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids omega-3. And fatty sea fish is the best of their natural source. If for any reason the child does not receive them, it leads to very serious problems. Including - and adapting to the school, with a focus that often in children with hyperactivity syndrome and attention deficit. A large study conducted in Britain showed that shortfall Omega-3 fatty acids, has greatly contributed to the improvement of their condition.

Puzzled by this problem, and we at the Institute of Food. Our study, carried out among preschool children found that additional use of omega-3 fatty acids in the composition of fish oil improves memory, attention, visual analyzer function and even reduce the incidence of SARS, because the fatty acids have immunomodulatory activity. Is not that convincing proof of how necessary our children this product! And if together we will achieve an understanding with parents the importance of eating fish children, then we probably will not run out champions and modernization program, which is now preparing our government get their worthy performers. With high intelligence and good health.

P. S. video version of the round table, you can see on our website: aif.ru. The editors of the weekly "AIF. Health "does not end the conversation about the problems of children's food in Russia. We invite you to participate in this conversation and you, our dear readers. Their views and suggestions please send us an email.

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