The dance friend of health: project concluded Asp - Catanzaro Informa

was held the final day of the project “Musical Notes … on the move” promoted by the operating units of Pediatrics and Community Health Education of the ASP of Catanzaro, part of the Regional Project Prevention “Gaining health in adolescents. “

objective of the project the promotion of physical activity as a means of preventing obesity in the wider context of a healthy lifestyle that can serve as the preferred route of adolescents. In Calabria, a survey by the Ministry of Health, it was found that 30% of the teenage population is overweight or obese clearly.

Physical activity in tune with nutrition education, therefore, represents the cornerstone to counter this phenomenon. And speaking of physical activity as the best move if you do not dance? This is the question that has set the Director of Community Paediatrics Scarlett Anfosso that, therefore, sought to combine the three phases indicated by the World Health Organization of complete physical, mental and social discipline in which one dance. The students were given lectures on the type of couple dance bachata and cha cha cha and fitness such as zumba, the instructor Eleanor Polito, of the dance school Dance Free Catanzaro, who visited schools to bring a breath of joy, musicality and aggregation in the class. Dance classes were complemented by interactive dialogues between students and the Pediatric nurse Lorraine Iozzo, who offered insights on the importance of physical activity and proper nutrition and that, to the tune of rap, he did sing and the small dance students of the second class of the primary school of Patari-Rodari plexus Gagliardi.

The project concluded with the dance competition at the school Dance Free Catanzaro, in which, under the gaze of judges, but kind of a jury of experts Giancotti Alba, Maria Rosa Madia, Joseph Frontera, and Joseph Polito, by psychologist Marisa Accoti and sports medicine Pine Bova, and in front of an audience of hundreds of parents and teachers, school students IC G. Casalinuovo, I.C. Don L. Milani, I.C. Patari-Rodari plexus Gagliardi have ventured in the dances learned, first in pairs and then in groups.

At the end of the preliminaries have been awarded the first two pairs classified by the technical awards: Matthew Ciccarello and Martina Posella, Luke pulera and Deborah Raphael and the two couples classified by the sympathy and fellowship award: Andrew Lupis and Ilene Sinopoli, Matthew Sweet Arianna and Luciano, who received a personal award, while the school was handed a cup from Mr. Joseph Polito, president of the Free Dance Catanzaro. The evening was enhanced by a passionate tango dancers at the hands of the school Davide Squillace, Eleanor Polito, Salvatore Gagliardi and Simona Babini and a fast jaive danced by a couple of students of the school Casalinuovo, Cristian Pitingolo and Giorgia Giglio. The event has been hailed by the Privacy Officer of the Department of Health and health policies in the Calabria Region, Rosalba Baron who recalled the importance of the movement as a moment of cardiovascular disease prevention, the headmasters Concetta Carrozza, Anthony Caligiuri and the Vicar Anna Maria altilia declared himself very satisfied with the pleasant experience that it is able to coagulate teaching moments and moments of cohesion of the class.

Scarlett Anfosso opened the proceedings by talking about the goals that the project is placed in faithful agreement and in line with the diktat imposed by the Region of Calabria, Catanzaro that the ASP has fully embraced. Even Franca Faillace, Director of the OU Health Education and Regional Coordinator of the project pointed out the importance of prevention as a device to promote the modification of inappropriate behavior among adolescents. The show was presented by the Project Manager Lorraine Iozzo that showed how it can be enjoyable physical activity to the rhythm of music, conveying, at the same time, the input to the intake of healthy eating habits and being able to overcome the shyness of students. He also addressed a warm thank you to the schools to the high sensitivity and the availability and proven particularly teachers who have actively collaborated: Ilene Giampà Elizabeth Brescia and Gaetana Roger JV G. Casalinuovo; Ivana Bevacqua of I. C. Don Lorenzo Milani, Annamaria Altilia and Catherine Cardamone JV Patari-Rodari plexus Gagliardi.