AVALIAÇÃO DA ADESÃO AOS 10 PASSOS PARA UMA ALIMENTAÇÃO SAUDÁVEL DE ESCOLARES DO MUNICÍPIO DE VARGINHA-MG

Abstract

Introduction: The food guides present themselves as a reference to the promotion of a healthy and proper alimentation, with clear and reliable guidelines to maintence of good health and nutrition because the bad eating habits represent a public health problem caused by acute and chronic complications which cause a high rate of complications. Objective: To avaliate the accession to the “10 steps to a healthy eating” in schoolchildren at 4th grade elementary school at Varginha-MG. Methodology: Participated in the study 41 schoolchildren aged between 9 and 11 years, enrolled in the 4th grade of a state school and a private school. It was used a questionnaire adapted from Couto (2010) to verify the accession to the 10 steps to a healthy eating. Results: The classification of nutritional status of the children analyzed, according to the BMI, indicated that in both schools the nutritional disorders presents high numbers. As the accession to the schoolchildren to the 10 steps to a health, eating it was found that on average 78% of the children adhered to the most of the steps. For private school, on average, children have adhered to 6.04 steps, while public school students have adhered to 6,72 steps. It should be noted that no student has reached all the 10 steps. Conclusion: Accession of the 10 steps to a healthy eating was above average for children in public and private schools, however the analysis of the critical steps showed a risk feeding behavior to obesity, nutritional deficiences and non-transmissional chronical diseases