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Experts in medicine, sport and nutrition debate in the National Day 'Health, Nutrition and Sports' organized by UCAM and the COE

"The UCAM important research will develop along with the Spanish Olympic Committee in the field of sport".

With these words, said the president of the Catholic University of Murcia UCAM, Jose Luis Mendoza, during the inauguration of the National Day 'Health, Nutrition and Sports', which held the university together with the Spanish Olympic Committee, during the day today.

Notably, the Minister of Health, Maria Angeles Palacios has been responsible for opening the symposium.

The first panel was on 'Physical activity and health'.

Asensio Lopez, coordinator of Strategic Projects of the Ministry of Health, spoke about the Active Program with which they are trying to use "sport to prevent health problems."

For his part, Juan Ramon Gimeno, coordinator of the Family Heart Disease Unit at the Hospital Virgen de la Arrixaca, addressed the troubling case of sudden death in athletes offering enlightening information: "In Spain there are 4,000 cases of sudden death per year . are many more traffic, for example, and the same resources are used in the prevention of sudden death. "

Also recommended that all enrolled in the study on sudden death that is being made in the UCAM: "It is a study exemplary and I think everyone who can should participate."

Also speaking at this table, José Luis Terreros, vice president of Sports and Health Sports Council, which dealt with studies of physical activity and health within the European Union framework.

In the second round, it was on 'The power elite athlete'.

The first speaker was Oscar Celada, chief medical officer of the Spanish football, and former student of the Master in Sports Traumatology UCAM, who spoke on the nutrition of the national team in the concentration of South Africa 2010.

Celada defended the values ​​of the Mediterranean diet but stressed that "we must learn to be flexible with athletes.'s Not good to be fifty days being strictly followed."

Also told some stories from that concentration and offered some clues to the students to deal with elite athletes on food.

Javier García Pereda, a researcher at the School of Hospitality in Seville, spoke about the 'food incidents during the voyage of Around the World in the Nao Victoria'.

Pereda Garcia spoke of the challenges he faced to maintain a balanced diet for a crew of nearly thirty people without refrigeration means: "It was challenging because I had very little time licensed and I faced the problem of conservation of food ".

To finish the morning shift, José Luis García Soidán intervened, professor at CAFD and Physiotherapy at the University of Vigo alerted all attendees on dietary supplements: "When did you decide to take a nutritional supplement? Recipe Who and why we take? should take all these questions before taking them ".

Also doubted its effectiveness.

He also offered some tips for healthy eating for children: "Never keep pulses at family meals. We have to be creative when feeding children."

Source: UCAM