After the high infection rates: The Gulf Diabetes Conference demands the Gulf food and drug authorities. Setting specifications for healthy food in the Gulf The first Gulf Conference of Sugar Societies recommends the inclusion of a subject for nutritional education in the Gulf school curricula (Jubail today) - Abedah Al Salami. Dammam Dr. Kamel Salama during his reading
Recommendations
The first regional conference of sugar societies in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council issued a set of recommendations, based on the organization’s report and conference discussions, under the title “Let us protect our future,” which concluded at the Sheraton Dammam. The recommendations took into account the situation of the Gulf region out of the ten countries in the world vulnerable to diabetes. And its spread among the population is frightening.
According to the Secretary-General of the Saudi Diabetes and Endocrinology Society, Dr. Kamil Salama, who read the recommendations at the end of the conference yesterday evening, the conference concluded an agreement to include health food education in the Gulf curricula from primary to secondary school.
The conference urged strengthening physical sport in all stages and setting higher grades on it, calling for the prevention of unhealthy food in school canteens, including university.
The conference emphasized that specifications for healthy food must be developed by the Gulf Food and Drug Authority and circulated to the relevant authorities to grant licenses in providing food and follow those specifications and emphasize their application.
The participants pointed out that the electronic listing of all diabetics in the National Diabetes Registry in every Gulf country and submitting it monthly to the national centers in the ministries of health in the GCC countries will contribute to developing the ministries in developing their strategies to combat this disease.
They called for creating a program called "Educating the Educator" for health educators in the Gulf training and health bodies to increase their perceptions and work to transfer them through courses and lectures in health education about healthy and safe dealing with male and female students with diabetes.
The recommendations made it clear that this program "educating the educated" comes to support the rights of students with diabetes and helps them avoid high and low blood sugar during the school day.
The conference called for an end to the media aimed at promoting unhealthy food, stressing the creation of sports and health clubs for children with obesity from both genders, along with their families.
They called for governmental and non-governmental agencies from the private sectors related to health and safety to join hands to effectively combat diabetes and obesity in the Gulf society.
About 500 participants from the countries of the Cooperation Council and from international sugar organizations participated in the first regional conference of sugar societies in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council under the title “To protect our future.” They participated in the discussions and the formulation of final recommendations, provided that this conference is annually hosted by one of the Gulf Cooperation Council in turn, and these are raised. Recommendations to the Gulf Ministries of Health to act as they deem appropriate and to activate these recommendations on the ground for the Gulf citizen.
Heads of international and Gulf sugar associations in a group photo
