05/10/2017

#GolfEsSalud: golf as a weapon to prevent obesity

Nephrologist José Antonio García Donaire tells us about the health benefits of golf

Together with Solán de Cabras, the RFEG aims to bring the benefits of… closer to its members and to Spanish society as a whole.

In partnership with Solán de Cabras, the RFEG (Royal Spanish Golf Federation) aims to highlight the health benefits of golf to its members and the wider Spanish public. This second video focuses on the importance of physical activity in preventing diseases such as obesity.

In this segment hosted by journalist Guillermo Salmerón, nephrologist José Antonio García Donaire explains how golf “can help in the prevention of obesity, which is an epidemic that is not only suffered in other countries, since in Spain we have a problem with childhood obesity.”.

“Moderate and supervised physical activity like golf can help prevent obesity and nutritional disorders that we may pay for later in life, and improve people's physical and mental well-being,” the doctor adds.

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