School feeding becomes more expensive and worse

According to experts, the quality of supply of Russian schoolchildren poor. Vitamin composition of products that feed the children, decreased significantly over the last century, and family eating habits are often not tenable. As a result - "age" of the disease, which the younger generation is beginning to suffer from an early age.

Head of the social power of the city of St. Petersburg Natalia Petrova told reporters that American experts for almost 100 years doing research and make sure the composition of products to reduce their nutritional value. Even those products that have traditionally been considered to be useful, lose their valuable qualities: for example, the vitamin composition of the same varieties of apples fell for a hundred years by 20%. It is the same with other products. According to Natalia Petrova, in the last century virtually all foods that are recommended for children who are poorer on important nutrients - only meat deep-sea fish has remained unchanged in its composition.

Would wipe all the necessary vitamins and minerals that children begin at an early age to suffer from ailments typical of adults. So, one of the most common among school children have become orthopedic problems. "We see how in childhood crumbling spines" - leads edition of «Neva 24" words of Professor Pediatric Medical University Olga Matalyginoy. Other typical "school" diseases of our time - thyroid dysfunction with a shortage of iodine and folic acid, as well as violations of the gastrointestinal tract.

According to experts, is largely a problem of malnutrition in children are associated with parental irresponsibility and lack of normal food culture in the families of schoolchildren. "They leave early in the morning and returned late in the evening and eat some disposable product" - the behavior of parents, experts commented. Thus children are not seeing a competent example, consume actively advertised fast food.

According to Professor Natalia Petrova, the only product that children can eat every day without injury to health, it is porridge. In a number of Petersburg schools it only served for breakfast, adding cheese and a loaf of bread and butter. Also in the school cafeteria menu includes other cereals, soups, vegetables, fish. By the way, since January 1, the cost of school meals in St. Petersburg will increase from 80 to 86 rubles. Lunch will cost 52 rubles, and breakfast - 34. parental wallets will not be affected, but this increase is hoping experts will be able to positively affect the health of children.

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