Health: call family doctors, Italian, you drink more - ANSA.it

(ANSAmed) – MILAN 23 JAN – A little over a liter a day is the average amount of liquid that Italians introduce into their body. A value too low, less than 50% compared to medical recommendations. By the initial results of the study ‘Liz’, conducted on 2,000 adult patients of family physicians from all over Italy, who also noted other parameters: the ‘lifestyle’ consumption of sugar, to that of alcoholic beverages, sweets, milk , fruit, up to physical activity.

at first sight, from the research – carried out in collaboration between the Italian Society of General Medicine (SIMG) and Nutrition Foundation of Italy (Nfi) – catches the eye just the problem of liquid : Italians stop it at an average of one liter and 115 cl per head per day, or half of what doctors recommend. It ‘important to drink instead of in an appropriate manner because the liquids involved in all the metabolic reactions of cells and are the main means of transport for substances in the body.

The average consumption of alcohol and alcoholic beverages, equal 10 grams of wine a day for men, and even less for women, it is instead ‘reassuring’, while it is not the data on the amount of physical activity, as a quarter of men and 34% of women say they make less 15 minutes a day.

” As to ‘take the average sugar – says Andrea Poli, president of Nfi – we are not faced with high intakes: it is 68 grams per day for men and of 66 grams for women. Data – comments – confirm imagine how difficult it is to solve the problem of overweight in Italy just squeezing the consumption of sugar.”

” They are very different – says Ovid Brignoli, Vice President of SIMG – the factors that impact on the ‘obesity, a condition that now affects 10% of Italians: it happens that 45% of males and 33% of females do not pay attention to the calories that introduces running for cover only when the fat has already begun to accumulate .”

To educate Italians to a healthy diet, Brignoli announces that the Simg is preparing a series of fact sheets on food, their characteristics, how to cooking, to be sent to doctors to 500-600 illustrating them to their clients, whose data will be collected at each subsequent visit and entered into a database. The goal is to reach 30 million people.

(ANSA).