An electronic database for children with "diabetes" in the region. Training of 500 chefs in "Eastern" to prepare nutritionally balanced meals. Previously - Dammam: The Secretary-General of the Saudi Society for Diabetes and Endocrinology in the Eastern Province, Dr. Kamil Salama, revealed the launch of an educational program at the level of Saudi Arabia To train chefs in hotels, fast-food restaurants, airlines and home cooks to prepare nutritionally balanced, low-calorie and fat-free meals, at the beginning of the New Year 2014 To support the health of Saudi and resident families To reduce the risk of developing diabetes, obesity and other associated diseases.
He said that this program will focus on healthy shopping, food safety and storage methods, low-fat and low-calorie cooking methods, and how to make dishes heart-friendly and contain elements that reduce the risk of cancer.
It is expected that more than 500 chefs and cooks will attend the "Scitech" center, while the application will be located in the "Sheraton" Hotel in "Dammam". The program lasts for six months, and the chef receives a certificate of completion of the training program.
Salama inaugurated the website of the "Sweet Smiles Club" for diabetic children in conjunction with the World Diabetes Day yesterday evening, in the presence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Association Abdulaziz Al-Turki, along with 120 children from the club''s registered members suffering from diabetes and their families, at Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Center Science and Technology (Scitech).
He said that the site will be a reference for Saudi families. How to discover, treat and coexist with their family with their children with diabetes, in addition to learning through it the ways of knowing diabetes patients, high and low diabetes and the symptoms of each of them, acute complications of diabetes, how to control childhood diabetes, nutrition system and means of exercise and extended it for children with type 1 and 2 diabetes .
He pointed out that this site will be a nucleus, from which the association will start establishing an electronic national database for children with diabetes in the Eastern Province.
"Salama" indicated that several activities were held on the occasion of World Diabetes Day, which falls on November 14 each year, starting at four in the afternoon. There was an educational lecture on diabetes for high school students, sponsored by the "Gulf Girl" Association, attended by more than 200 students.
On the sidelines of the lecture, body mass, blood pressure and blood sugar were measured for the attendees, in cooperation with the Health Centers Administration in "Al-Khobar", in the mobile vehicle for the detection of obesity and diabetes owned by the association, and it was recently launched in the International Camp for Diabetes Children, and then an entertainment event for children with diabetes was held. Outside the center in the open air.
