Educar para a saúde: merenda escolar

Abstract

A healthy diet especially during school can prevent a number of diseases such as anemia and diabetes, prevent childhood obesity, and provide greater quality of life for children and adolescents, however, such a task is not as simple as it looks for school feeding in many schools throughout Brazil still leaves much to be desired, school meals must be carefully prepared by nutritionists noting the major nutritional deficiencies of students. Menus must be prepared taking into account the nutritional value of foods, thus ensuring the necessary for the proper growth and development of children nutrients to ensure their welfare during the period in which they remain in school. The school is the social space and the location where the student will follow the process of socialization. What if it says it does and appreciates is an example of what society wants and approves. Correct behaviors against the power must be learned in practice in everyday school life, contributing to the formation of responsible citizens. Thus, this work of Course Completion aimed to demonstrate the need for a redirection in educational projects that aim to form new consciousness and attitudes towards growing issues regarding healthy eating. The Power of 24 students was analyzed by means of multiple-choice questions, which included the period that it remained in school and extraescolar period. What is observed is that most school feeding the lunch provided at school logo can be seen by calculating the BMI achieved by physical education, these students had no negative or worrying result as overweight or even malnutrition. Can conclude that the school lunch plays a major role in school-age children, because it is from a healthy menu that we can avoid deficits, nutritional deficiencies and excesses, and improve educational outcomes. When considering food preferences outside the school context, we perceive a deficit in dietary preferences, so does the group of children who do not use the meals and end up bringing food from home. Finally, we can conclude that it is necessary a paradigm shift from family members of one of the school, since it still does not bring foods that make up the class of unhealthy foods. This behavior can be modified with the help of school practices that address the nutritional education, and collaboration with the school nutritionist lectures and other practices.