M.V. Diabetes and M. Viswanathan Diabetes Research Centre unveiled a programme targeted at college students to mark World Diabetes Day on Tuesday.
The Chennai Slim and Fit 2.0 is a follow-up to the first project launched in 2007, when school children were taught to stay healthy and fit.
Vijay Viswanathan, Head and Chief Diabetologist, M.V. Diabetes, implemented the comprehensive school health manual across the city in Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools. “We followed 6,000 school students in Chennai. In 2007, the CBSE had brought out a health manual, but it was not used. We took out the manual and taught the students and trained teachers. We found that after three years the children had lost weight and their body mass index fell,” he said. The findings were published in a peer-reviewed medical journal in 2013.
