2023-05-09 16:36:02
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- Hervé Collado is a sports doctor and vice president of the M24 association (Photo Joël Barcy)
The heart is a muscle
Game consoles, smartphones, social networks, young people are increasingly sedentary. However, summarizes Hervé Collado, “ the heart is representative of all the muscles. If he does not work he atrophies and weakens. Result in our teenagers the heart pump has much less capacity. The example is the leg in plaster, for lack of walking the diameter decreases. For the heart, there are so many activities that we will no longer be able to do and risks in the long term. »
Serial diseases
Added to this sedentary lifestyle is the consumption of junk food, made of sugars and fats. The accumulation of a sedentary lifestyle and the consumption of processed foods generates an explosive cocktail. ” The diseases linked to this reduced cardiovascular capacity are multifactorial », estimates Hervé Collado. « This ranges from hypertension with the risk of stroke to diabetes and the possibility of developing cancer. Beyond the sedentary lifestyle also sometimes leads to psychological and psychiatric problems due to the lack of sociability “. If we add to this the increased development of artificial intelligence ” even our brain will be at rest so it is urgent to move the buttocks! concludes the doctor.
Surfing the Olympics with M24
To overcome these health problems among young people, Hervé collado, intends to surf the Olympics. With the M24 association, of which he is the vice-president, he intervenes in high schools with a dietician to make young people aware of a better lifestyle. ” I tell them that if they want to live in good health, now is the time to act. That they need to eat better, do at least moderate physical activity. If we don’t take advantage of this exceptional event, we will have missed something. ».
If nothing is done, for this sports doctor ” It is very likely that, for the first time in decades, today’s children and adolescents will have a plummeting life expectancy. ».
At ORT high school, an awareness
As part of an intervention by Hervé Collado in mid-May, first year students from the Ort high school in Marseille conducted a survey to find out about the lifestyle of the young people in the establishment. A vast questionnaire, revealing habits.
Brevity of meals, often skipped breakfasts, excessive consumption of soda. Everyone is more or less aware that it’s not good, that this cocktail can lead to long-term health problems but, notes Mathilde, “we were born with social networks, we are aware that it is not good to swallow a meal in 15 minutes, that you have to play sports, all that but we are used to what”. “We stay in our bubble, telling ourselves that it doesn’t matter. We are in adolescence, we want to do what we love” translates Lilou. But overall the high school students of Ort are doing well. The vast majority of young people practice sport and suffer less from an atrophied heart.
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