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Directors of Agriculture, Education and Health visiting with the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras the Public School and Primary Education Sacred Heart for program development in the municipality
More than 350 schools and 54,000 students in the Region participate this year in the development of 'Plan for Fruits and Vegetables', which is developing the regional government for the fourth year in a European project to promote the consumption of these products and healthy habits in diet.
The plan benefits the school from first to fourth grade, aged between 6 and 10 years.
This morning, the directors of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, Education, Training and Employment, Constantine Sotoca, and Health, Maria Angeles Palacios, visited with the mayor of Puerto Lumbreras, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, the College of Education and Sacred Heart Elementary for program development, which manages and coordinates the association of producers and exporters in the region, Proexport.
The Minister of Agriculture and Water said that "Murcia is one of the communities most successful where the development of this plan of fruits and vegetables," adding that "in each call has been increasing the number of participating centers rising from 40 in the first edition to more than 350 today. "
He stressed the need for projects like this to "promote healthy and know the importance of agriculture in our food and the wide variety of fruits and vegetables we produce."
For his part, Minister of Education, Training and Employment stressed the "importance of addressing issues in education transverse improve not only student learning but contributes to define a healthy lifestyle."
In this regard, said that with programs such as 'Fruit at School' "we are able to redirect certain behaviors toward healthier habits."
Sotoca emphasized the 'outstanding' host of the program "has reached almost all primary schools in the region," and stressed that "this year have joined for the first time, the twelve special schools, so they have been nearly 55,000 students who have benefited in this issue ".
Specifically, in Puerto Lumbreras involving two schools, the CEIP Sacred Heart and Immaculate Conception CEIP-Esparragal Station.
Your Mayor, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, explained that "through Plan of fruit and vegetable consumption more than 400 children from Puerto Lumbreras adquirieren healthy habits, yet encourage the consumption of products from our region since childhood".
The Minister of Health and Social Policy said that the actions of health education "can not be sporadic, but must be continued".
Hence the importance of the Plan of Health Education in the School of the Region of Murcia "which aims to make healthy lifestyle habits are part of the life of schools, transversely so that they are integrated into the curriculum and in the school's educational project ".
400,000 servings of fruits and vegetables
The selected centers have a gifted coordinator of nutrition education necessary for them to teach students the importance of incorporating these foods into your diet.
In addition, teachers will provide pieces of fruit and vegetables in recess.
According to the president of Proexport, John Marin, have distributed more than 400,000 servings of fruits and fresh seasonal vegetables and processed as melon, stone fruit, citrus, apple, pear, banana, seedless table grapes, juice fruits, strawberries, carrots, cherry tomatoes, peas, celery, cauliflower, broccoli and lettuce.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Puerto Lumbreras
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