The three pillars that make health a transversal concept are nutrition, physical health and emotional health, as highlighted by the experts gathered in a forum organized in the framework of the celebration of the XIII anniversary of the Tomás Pascual Sanz Institute (ITPS).
A recent ITPS study on healthy habits, in which 500,000 publications of 155,000 Spanish users of social networks were analyzed, shows that social concern about health revolves in parallel around the good diet, physical activity and mind care. Precisely, during this forum, experts and representatives of different sectors and institutions of society explored these three pillars of ecosystem of healthy habits In our country.
Research determines that there is a intimate relationship between the three axes in the general conversation about health that takes place on social networks, generating, around this concept, an entire ecosystem in which, like equally important, topics such as advice on food, healthy recipes, exercise tutorials, training routines coexist, messages about self-motivation or relaxation techniques to help take care of inner health.
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Thus, although the pillar of the nutrition and healthy eating remains one of the great topics of conversation around health, the physical exercise and mental and emotional health are outlined as two equally important keys to achieve complete health, this entire ecosystem being the only way to achieve a high quality of life.
This reality is also supported by a study prepared by the University of Cambridge published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which concludes that sedentary lifestyle is linked to twice as many deaths as obesity in Europe, being responsible for 676,000 annual deaths on the continent compared to 337,000 caused by obesity. Thus, researchers call for the physical activity as an element as important or more than healthy eating, given the negative effects that its absence has on health.
In this sense, the Tomás Pascual Sanz Institute has focused this year on explore healthy habits as a multipolar concept, like an entire ecosystem made up of nutrition factors; physical health and emotional health and influenced by the main agents and institutions of our society: Industry, Administration, Academy, etc.
The importance of emotional health
The commemorative act of the XIII anniversary of the Institute had the presence of Mario Alonso Puig,doctor, writer and lecturer, who gave a keynote speech in which he addressed the emotional health factor how key piece within the general health ecosystem, explaining its characteristics and analyzing the factors involved in its achievement. In your opinion, “The physical, mental and emotional dimensions of a person are three realities that can be distinguished, but cannot be separated. Our health, well-being and happiness depend to a great extent on care that we take of our body, our mind and our soul. In this sense, the discoveries that are being made about the relationship between thoughts, feelings and emotions they are increasingly surprising and relevant ».
“Many times we are not aware of the way in which mental processes affect our brain, our body as a whole and the relationships we establish with others. The Affective Neuroscience, Contemplative Neuroscience and Positive Psychology give us many keys to know each other better, understand each other more and thus be able to improve ourselves. This opens a way for our life is healthier, prosperous and happy“Added Alonso.
A multi-factor ecosystem
After the intervention of Mario Alonso Puig, representatives of the different social agents involved in promoting healthy lifestyle habits, experts spoke at a round table moderated by the director of the magazine Quo, Jorge Mayor.
José María Antón, Deputy Minister of Health Humanization of the Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid, as representative of the Public Administration, highlighted the importance of promoting physical activity from the institutions who, he pointed out, “have to lead the way to healthy lifestyle habits. It is not enough to inform consumers, the Administration also has the responsibility to legislate to try to reinforce them“He stressed.
For his part, Mauricio García de Quevedo, CEO of Fiab, valued the actions taken by the industry in terms of healthy habits, highlighting its firm commitment to the health ecosystem. Regarding the current situation, he advocated “tackle the health as the multi-factor system and complex it is, fleeing from simplistic solutions. It is vitally important to ensure the correct information to consumers at a time of disinformation prevalence“
In this sense, Fernando Móner, President of CECU, made reference to the need for improve the quality of information that consumers receive. “We are at a time when food security has reached levels that it has never reached before, and even then, false information about food is also greater than ever ”, he pointed. Móner called for the collaboration of all the social agents that influence the promotion of healthy habits for “improve the information that reaches consumers“
For his part, Nancy Babio, Associate Professor and Vice Dean responsible for the Degree in Human Nutrition and Dietetics of the Rovira i Vigili University and president of the CODINUCAT (College of Dietitians and Nutritionists of Catalonia), directed its intervention towards the field of nutrition. In this line, Babio highlighted the importance of food for health and the direct impact it has on quality of life. “We must move forward together to inform the population of what they are eating. Eating is more than just eating“He stressed.
Jaime Lissavetzky, president of the Spain Activa foundation He took advantage of his speech to highlight the importance of physical activity within the health ecosystem in which, he said, “has a direct impact” Thus, he encouraged the adoption of healthy habits as a way of life, highlighting that “it is worth fulfilling the equation of physical activity equals health“
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The round table also had the vision of Miguel Ángel Velázquez, director of CIVSEM (Values Research Center), who defended Pascual’s role in promoting healthy habits, focusing his speech on psychological aspect of health. “It’s of vital importance include emotions in the idea of quality of life. We must become aware of the moments and spaces that we share with our loved ones as this allows us to strengthen our values and build our personality on solid pillars“
Ricardo Martí Fluxá, president of the ITPS, was in charge of closing the anniversary act, in which he defended the position of the Institute as a reference agent in scientific dissemination, training and dissemination. “We cannot conceive of a more challenging challenge than promote the global well-being of the population and to do it with all means and from all possible perspectives, starting from the leadership of global institutions and public powers to collaboration with the private sector and civil society“Highlighted the president.
Since its foundation, the Tomás Pascual Sanz Institute has maintained a firm commitment to study healthy habitsfrom a transversal perspective, exploring all the variables that influence it and analyzing its present and future trends. This work is carried out within the framework of responsible management Pascual Aporta, an initiative that marks the daily doing of the company and that places it as an actor who watches over the quality of life of people inside and outside their areas of activity.
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