El currículum del área de la educación física como promotor de hábitos de vida saludable: caso Colegio Ricaurte IED

Abstract

Globally, there is growing concern about the consequences of sedentary lifestyle. The different world organizations, governments and in general the entities in charge of health and public welfare are alarmed by the statistics that indicate the predominant role of sedentary lifestyle in the population and that show it as one of the five main causes of death in the world (The Lancet, 2012) .1 In the report on the world situation of chronic non-communicable diseases 2014, from the WHO-World Health Organization, its director Dr. Margaret Chan says: “The world is in a decisive moment in the history of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and it has before it a unique opportunity to alter its course "(WHO, 2014) .2 Chronic non-communicable diseases do not discriminate between age groups or specific regions, but they do have factors common risk factors such as physical inactivity, alcohol and tobacco consumption, and inadequate diet, which increases the risk of dying from a chronic non-communicable disease you. Approximately 6 million people die each year from tobacco, predicting that this number will increase to 8 million in 2030, 3.2 million deaths are attributed to insufficient physical activity, 1.7 million due to cardiovascular diseases are attributed to excessive intake of sodium, in general chronic noncommunicable diseases cause 38 million deaths per year (WHO, Press Center 2015), 3 which indicates the harmful extent that these diseases have in the world population and, logically, in the Latin American population and Colombian.