As part of World Health Day 2016, the Sports Authority of India (SAI) organised a one-day seminar on the role of sports medicine in prevention and management of diabetes at the Conference Hall of the LNCPE, Karyavattom, here, on Thursday.
The seminar was inaugurated by Ellangovan IAS, principal secretary, Health Department. Dr. Ellangovan criticised the practice of children being taught other subjects during PT periods in schools in Kerala. He said such practice should be discouraged as physical education and physical exercise were equally important as other subjects.
Diabetes State
He said Kerala had become the diabetes State of the country and while we took pride in eradicating diseases such as cholera, TB, and smallpox, our new generation was increasingly prone to lifestyle diseases.
P.S.M. Chandran, president of Indian Federation of Sports Medicine, who presided, stressed the importance for making physical education compulsory in schools to make children healthy. He said sportspersons suffered from diabetes largely because of inadequate knowledge of diet management and physical exercises. He advocated a balanced diet and scientific training methods to prevent diabetes in sportspersons.
