A Grinka takes obesity in Mexico

When I was standing in a local Kuanajuado Supermarket, buying a three -liter bottle coke about a boy about 8 years old, I remember a 2012 documentary “Globality”, which examines how global obesity and how it affects Mexico, Brazil, India and China. This scene depicts a Mother’s Day celebration at an elementary school in Chiabas, where moms, teachers and children chat in school, not bottled water, not bottled water. According to the film, one of the reasons for the spread of Coke in Chiabas is that in some communities, Coca -Cola strategically fixed its drinks slightly lower than bottled water. No wonder obesity in Mexico is a national crisis.

Residents of Chiabas drink more coke than in the world, and the consumption of soft drinks is in a country in the fourth place in the world. Residents of San Cristopal de Los Casas drink an average of more than two liters or half a gallon soda. This consumption is bound to the water crisis in the state, where 7 percent of houses believe that their water is safe to drink, According to the 2023 InEGI survey. Of the 124 municipalities of the state, 80 are not inadequate access to drinking water and tribal communities have been badly affected. This problem increases with corporate water consumption, which is often described as Coca -Cola, selling chiabanecons its own water as soft drinks. No wonder the death rate from diabetes in Siabas has increased by 30 percent between 2013 and 2016, and the disease is now the second leading leading to death in the state after heart disease.

Although Chiabas Kokin is the greatest consumers, overweight is a health problem throughout the country. Study Data From the national health and nutritional survey by 2021, more than 37% of the age of Mexican school age are overweight or obese.

Food culture and obesity in Mexico

The phrase “food culture” refers to the system of beliefs and expectations that despise the thin character, creating a rage around the food and exercise, and the excess weight. In the United States, food culture often leads to anxiety and humiliation. I know this closely because when I was 11 years old, my mother was number one in many foods. Although I was not heavy, she was curious that I could gain weight because she was ridiculed as a teenager for being a bomb. Although my mother’s excitement is intense, today it is one of the many examples of the bizarre food culture that has been completely normalized in the United States

Although obesity is a serious problem in Mexico, unlike the United States (#1) and Canada (#7), Mexico is more important than the United States in the list of the top ten food fanatical countries in the world. According to my Spanish teachers, there is concern about being overweight in Mexico and has increased from the influx of social media. Nonetheless, Diet Cocks and Pepsis are not caught in supermarket shelves; The media is not filled with a diet one after another; Moms did not leave the old routine of taking their children to a “Tindita” after school to buy a feast.

Is Mexico’s most relaxed attitude to help bring weight loss?

When Research Should a person not help a person to lose weight – In fact, very opposite – a relaxed, compassionate attitude to a person’s obesity is not a complete solution. It turns out that parents can be very relaxed. A 2016 InspectionFor example, even though Mexican mothers feel exactly that their overweight babies are overweight, they do not care about it because they thought the child was temporary. In large quantities, this is not true: one Study At the age of seven, 70% of children were found to be overweight as adults.

A 2015 study of 1380 low -income homes in Mexico City Childhood overweight is found to be a normal, desirable position: overweight children are thought to be “tall, stronger, as a leader, normal and smart than normal and thin children.” The authors of the study noted that mothers and grandmothers were sought to define nutritional procedures and that grandparents were severely affected by the memories of a period of time that children with overweight were nutritional deficiency and the best chances of surviving the disease.

Government action

Since 2014, the Mexican government has taken steps to address overweight and obesity infection. That year, it started campaigns to fight obesity infection, including taxes on sodas and high -calorie snacks, successfully reduced the sale of sugar sweet drinks.

By 2020, three state legislators in Mexico enacted laws to prohibit the sale of sugar drinks and high -calorie foods to children. Okshaka is the first, followed by Tabasco and Golima. That year, the government Enacted the law required by manufacturers to mark the packaging of food Information labels are high in saturated fat, transit fat, sugar, sodium or calories.

In April, schools in Mexico are no longer allowed to sell any snack with a warning label, which contains a large amount of salt, sugar or fat. Those who do not follow these rules will be fined.

These are a good start, but the complexity of the problem is enormous. For example, the law that prohibits the selling of schools “Comeda Chatra” (junk food) is not applicable to vendors outside the school grounds. The latest report of the Ministry of Education (September) found it 77% of schools had such junk food levels.

With a combination of anger, caution and compassion in the Mexican Child Obesity Crisis: The self -service greed of multinational corporations, the initiative to address the problem of the Mexican government, and the confidence that the Mexican parents tried to feed their children.

Louisa Rogers Her husband, Barry Evans, divides their lives between Guwanjuado and Eureka on the north coast of California. Louisa writes articles and articles on foreign life, Mexico, travel, physical and psychological health, pension and spirituality. Can be found in his latest articles On his website.