Syndromic Obesity Gemellihealth 30 Envelopes

Syndromic Obesity Gemellihealth Food For Special Medical Purposes with sweetener

Pediatric obesity is one of the global and emerging problems in both industrialized and developing countries, its definition, control and prevention is one of the main challenges of world public health.

Various syndromic genetic conditions associated with obesity present since childhood have been described in the literature; some examples are Bardet-Biedl syndrome, WAGR syndrome, Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Cohen syndrome, Fragile X syndrome, Smith Magenis syndrome, Down syndrome, Rubinstein Taybi, Prader-Willi syndrome is a paradigm.

In particular, Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disease (1 / 25,000 births), due to abnormalities of the critical region of chromosome 15 (15q11-q13). It is characterized by severe hypotonia in the neonatal and infantile period, onset of food compulsion and hyperphagia since preschool age, risk of early morbid obesity. Basal energy expenditure is reduced as well as lean mass at the expense of fat mass. There may be intellectual disabilities, learning difficulties, severe behavioral and / or psychiatric disorders that affect everyday life in the round, also making it difficult to control the eating compulsion and body weight.

To such an important and complex issue, GHS has dedicated a thematic site, which can be consulted at the link obesitasindromicaenutrizione.it

Therefore, on the basis of these characteristics and the multifactorial genesis of the disease, it is believed that the nutritional approach (to be foreseen early in the multidisciplinary follow-up of patients with syndromic obesity) could make use, especially for subjects aged> 4 years, of a Food for Special medical purposes with particular nutritional characteristics, suitable and responsive to the needs of this pathological condition.

GHS Syndromic Obesity was developed as a nutritional support for people with syndromic obesity and should be used under medical supervision.

The specialist will take into account, case by case, the specific nutritional needs dictated by the etiological and functional diagnosis of the subject with syndromic obesity and will integrate the prescription with a balanced nutritional program.

A formulation has been developed as a substitute for meals in single bags of 35 gr each, containing a gelling mixture, which provides approximately 125 kcal per serving and in which the carbohydrate share is guaranteed by maltodextrins which guarantee a low dextrose-equivalence, which is slower to metabolize and which does not induce glycemic peaks.

The product allows you to take a balanced meal with a low calorie density and with characteristics suitable for intervening on the modulating mechanisms of the sense of satiety.

MAIN INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE

Syndromic genetic conditions associated with obesity (Prader-Willi syndrome, Bardet-Biedl syndrome among the main ones)

Format

Pack of 30 bags of 35g