20/07/2010

The Ministry for Health and Social Policy took another step forward in promoting healthy habits when it today signed a Framework Collaboration Agreement with the Spanish Olympic Committee. It is hoped that this will lead to joint actions aimed at increasing healthy habits, encouraging citizens to take part in physical activity through the promotion, development and dissemination of sporting values.

The Minister for Health and Social Policy congratulated both Alejandro Blanco, President of the Spanish Olympic Committee, and Roberto Sabrido, President of the Spanish Agency for Food Safety and Nutrition, for their work during the past few months to make this agreement possible.

Trinidad Jiménez declared that this agreement is proof of the great interest that both institutions have in fulfilling the objective, promoting and spreading healthy habits together with sporting values, underlining her conviction that with initiatives such as this one, we will be closer to meeting the challenge set out in the NAOS Strategy, for improving citizens’ eating habits and promoting the regular practice of physical exercise, especially with regard to children. The signing of this agreement with the COE, the Minister said, allows us to show our support for a principle also shared by the Ministry for Health and Social Policy, that sport and the Olympic movement represent a vehicle for the transmission of fundamental values, both sporting and human.

The President of AESAN, who signed the document, stressed that in signing this agreement, it was hoped that sportsmen and women would act as social models for healthy habits, with regard to nutrition and physical activity. Roberto Sabrido said that different activities would be implemented together with the Spanish Olympic Committee, such as arranging for Olympic sportsmen and women to give talks at schools, or the celebration of a major national event to promote physical activity and Olympic values, among others.

Alejandro Blanco, for his part, thanked the Minister for her words and reflected on how important it was for those children dreaming of becoming champions to benefit from a healthy diet and adequate physical activity, and he showed his willingness to support whatever actions were necessary within the framework of this agreement.

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