Cuore-Vita Magazine N.8 – December 2013
30 January 2013
Announce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Food for thought in the words of a luminary of Cardiology, Dall’Olmo Charles, president of the Michigan Vascular Center. Be your own physician is an abiding and all the while valid prescription and options to put it in practice abound. In this regard, there are initiatives beyond our borders where the culture of prevention begins at school age. Such as, how to bring the youngest children to use instruments to measure pressure. It ‘s just an example but you get the idea. Just press a button and the minimum and maximum appear on a display, even the heart beat. A no-brainer, and American teenagers, children of modern technology, welcome it with the enthusiasm and curiosity one experiences with a new game. Learning by playing is easier! Testing dad’s, mom’s, siblings’ and classmates’ pressure becomes an engrossing and even fun game. Hence the health concept is expanding spontaneously in environments that should be, par excellence, education gymnasia bringing awareness to these issues: the school and the family. Why shouldn’t these experiences already designed elsewhere make inroads in our communities, in addition to the canonical information campaigns so commendable for their purposes? Our children, who excel at pressing buttons on the playstation, would certainly not be outdone. It would suffice to involve them! The editorial staff wish you all a happy Christmas!