The minister Pablo Bustinduy announces that Schools will have to offer healthy food every day of the week, setting priorities organic food and of course also the proximity. The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo Buestinduy, has emphasized that the Royal Decree on healthy and sustainable school canteens will the schools in spaces for healthy habits and fight against inequality.
The Minister of Social Rights, Consumption and Agenda 2030, Pablo BustinduyI visit the CEIP La Luz, a school in La Orotava, Tenerife, which is affiliated with the «Eco-diners of the Canary Islands». This project is being developed at various schools on the islands and is a benchmark initiative offers students a healthy and sustainable diet, with organic and local products.
These same objectives, Bustinduy has emphasized, are pursued by the Royal Decree on healthy and sustainable school canteens, on which she is working in collaboration with other ministries based on her consumer responsibilities.. This arrangement has been recorded Bustinduyis approved in this course and It means that schools must offer a healthy meal every day of the week.
‘We are going to guarantee that The five meals consumed weekly at schools and institutions meet health and sustainability criteria.« he stated. In this way he has emphasized, Schools will become spaces where healthy habits can be learned“and will also help combat inequality.”
With regard to the latter, the minister mentioned the following data from the Aladino study released last week And? show an overall decline in childhood obesity, but a persistent problem of childhood overweight and obesity in low-income families.
“This is related to the precarious conditions of these families and affects eating habits, sleep quality or sedentary lifestyle,” he warned. Bustinduywhile emphasizing the fundamental role played by the Royal Decree on school canteens to reverse this inequality.
«Every child and adolescent has the right to healthy, quality food, regardless of the means of their family or where they were born.“he declared.
He Royal Decree on school canteensthe minister explained, will encourage the intake of fruits, vegetables, fish, legumes and whole grains in schools, in addition to limiting ultra-processed and high-calorie foods, as set by the standards set by the World Health Organization for these cases.
Moreover, he emphasized Bustinduythey go prefer seasonal and local products“promoting the work of local farmers, ranchers and fishermen,” while Commits to a more ecological and less polluting model.
During his visit to CEIP La Luz, Pablo Bustinduy He was accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food Sovereignty of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alejandro Narvay Quintero. Together they were able to see with their own eyes the facilities of this school in Tenerife, through the kitchen or the dining room, which are located in this center «school eco dining room» for the work carried out there. Both the Minister and the Advisor were also able to speak with those responsible for the center and learn more about this program that promotes healthy eating and that extends to teaching classes.