Obesity and overweight have reached the qualification of worldwide epidemic and it is calculated than more than 3 million people have overweight and at least 300 millions have obesity.
One of the main focus of WHO for these important issue of Public Health is related to the relation between cardiovascular disease, diabetes, High blood pressure and some types of cancer.
Among the main causes of obesity we can find high consume of food with high contents of sugar and fat and less physical activity.
55% of the Spanish population revealed not does any physical exercise at all and 38% of the young population declares not practice any exercise.
13% of the Spanish between 2 and 24 years old have obesity and 26% have overweigh.
This problem affect mainly to the Southeast region of Spain: Andalucia, Canarias and Murcia, which are four points upper the average.
This is why in the Canary Islands we are developing the Delta project focusing on make people awareness of the importance of a healthy lifestyle (nutrition and physical activity).
We show some experiences that have been done as activities of health promotion.
Justification of DELTA project:
