Nutrition

Binnacle: Many people in Mexico suffer from diabetes and other diseases in the absence of good eating habits.
There are many habits and attitudes that play roles in the nutrition and alimentationof the world's population, and the population of Mexico in specific. These food habits are of major influence on obesity and overweight. But they do not develop in a vacuum. It's human nature and growsfrom many things:
Personal: everyday living, family relationships, cultural values, habits, attitudes, practices.
Cultural: rites and ceremonies, beliefs, personal food meaning, availability.Economics: (family) income, recession.
Social: different groups in society with different values, backgrounds, habits etc...
Psychological influences: Diet patterns, food as power for children,sweets-theory, personal meaning and relationship to personal needs.
In last 30 years Mexico has been a leading example of these factors of influence on nutrition and the problems with nutrition. Manychanges in food habits and an increase of malnutrition has occurred in these last 30 years.
In our Communitarian Clinique of Montemorelos, doctors work with people from the community people that hasvery low resources and don’t have the access to the information the most of the person does, so they have to work with very easy concepts and they try to give the persons the basis of nutrition inorder to help them to have better habits.
In Mexico we have the opportunity to have a very good nutrition because we have the resources to be able to have it, but the problem is that we don’t haveenough information. The problem with Mexico is that we have some groups of people that are not exposed to information and we have other groups of people which know a lot about nutrition and have habitsand a healthy lifestyle, so is a very big contrast between the population of the country. It has potential and we have to work in it. Some areas of the republic know enough already but some other...