Periscope project

Social changes throughout the decades have determined changes in people style life. In particular the different role of woman in society can be listed among the factors which can determine obesity.
 

Obesity and families life style: how obesity and over weight is more likely
to be found in some families depending -  in addition to other factors -
also on social rank and economical features.
 

Children, obesity and asthma. Why it is so important to fight obesity since
childhood with sane life styles: it is very likely that an obese child will
become an adult with healthy problems. How to avoid it.
 

Flu: the seasonal one and the AH1N1. The reasons why we have to take care of
children above all if they are overweight or obese. Since obese kids tend to
have problems with respiratory system, they run more risks because flu
affects the respiratory apparatus.
 

Children can eat everything and have to, the important thing is the
capability to choose. Parents' role is central but and  an excessive control
can increase the risk of compulsive eating.
 

After summer holidays and summers vices It is important to recover a regular
rhythm of everyday life and a correct diet above all as far as our children
are concerned.
 

Alcohol is a social issue whose consumption is influenced by many social
factors. Advertising is also to blame since it promotes many bad examples.
It has to be regulated and regulation is needed also as far as distribution
of alcohol is concerned.

 

The health risks connected with alcohol misuse, even greater when teenagers
are concerned: alcohol is very harmful above all for a young body since it
is absorbed directly in the stomach with toxic effects.
 

Sleeping few hours per night is a bad habit affecting also children who tend
to go to bed later in the night although they have to wake up early in the
morning to go to school. Children who do not sleep enough are subject to
greater risks to become overweight and obese and they are more likely to
develop less.  

A relationship exists between lack of sleep and obesity: those who sleep
only few hours per night feel hungrier in the morning and they are therefore
more prone to become obese.

 

The importance of a correct diet for children and the role of School in order to educate kids and positively influence their diet.
 

The diet followed by mothers during pregnancy can affect the health of the babies and their diet above all in the first years of life.
 

There is a link between sugary drinks and increasing obesity: often assumption of sugar through the so much advertised sugary drinks alters the correct functioning of the body.

Correct lifestyles and habits to be focused by parents in order to defeat
children obesity, a real illness which has not to be underestimated.
 

Obesity  and overweight can have a strong negative impact on children
socialization affecting children self-esteem and their capacity to build
relationships.  

The importance of an appropriate and balanced diet for children in order to prevent obesity: the interview to Doctor Ambruzzi from Pediatric Hospital "Bambino Gesù" in Rome.  

The hypothesis of a viral origin for obesity, still to be verified, must not to be a pretext to forget the importance of a balanced diet and of physical activity.

The importance of school facilities in order to foster physical activities: a workshop organized in November within the Periscope Project tackles the issue of indoor and outdoor environment in kindergartens.  

The results of the Italian survey "Okkio alla salute 2008": children's wrong eating habits and the responsibilities of parents and School.  

Child obesity is more and more widespread in Europe. Silvia Biasotto (Movimento Difesa del Cittadino) and Margherita Caroli (Asl Br) introduce Periscope, a European project against child obesity.