Onishchenko warned children against passion for fast food

Indicators of children's obesity in Russia are growing, including because of the fascination of fast food. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the assistant prime minister, the former chief state sanitary doctor Gennady Onishchenko.

"As for the obesity of the children's population, we, unfortunately, have an increase in indicators. We have 12.2 percent - the growth rate compared to 2009. This reason is fast food, it is fatty foods, chips, stake, hypodynamia (inactive lifestyle). But, above all, fast food," he said on the air of the Echo Moscow radio station.

Onishchenko added that it is necessary to not just eat "where it got", but to observe the diet. Also, children need more protein products, not fat -containing, he recalled.

“I understand that the stomach needs to be filled, but let's fill it with plant foods. It is now available all year round,” the prime minister advised the entire population of the country.

In October, Onishchenko left the post of head of Rospotrebnadzor. The deputy prime minister Olga Golodets announced his resignation. She explained that the head of Rospotrebnadzor has expired the term of office. Onishchenko reacted to the Golodets’s statement painfully, calling her a “strange character”. Subsequently, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev approved his resignation, while appointing a former official as his adviser.

Onishchenko gained scandalous fame as a result of mass prohibitions on the sale of products from a number of countries in Russia. Experts and the media repeatedly noted that the restrictions were introduced in relation to precisely those countries with which Russia had political or economic conflicts at that moment. Among such prohibitions restrictions on the import of mineral water and wine from Georgia, the ban on Moldavian wines , as well as nuts and dried fruits from Tajikistan and dairy goods from Lithuania.

In addition, Onishchenko became famous for a number of extravagant statements. In particular, he accused Georgia of intentionally casting wild pigs to Russia, and also accused this country of developing a biological weapon directed against Russia. He also spoke out for the ban on the use of kefir at the wheel, offered the Russians to refuse to use land (“Why is there this fish affected by helminthic invasions?”), Advised to destroy the raven (“Ravens are feathered wolves, and they must be mercilessly destroyed”), and also recommended that they refuse to participate in rallies , as this creates an additional risk of the disease.

Onishchenko headed Rospotrebnadzor since 2004, and since 1996 he has been the main sanitary doctor of Russia.