Health

Promoting healthy eating habits

01/02/2015

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The school has a fundamental role in guiding and nutritional recovery of children and adolescents, should therefore concentrate actions related to promoting healthy eating and qualidadeO growth of healthy children and adolescents depends to a large extent on access to socio-cultural and affective environments encourage and enable the development of their skills and reach their potential biological, psychological and social. Therefore, the relationship that the young man down with food is a key part of this process and the school stands out as a prime location for health promotion and construction of the conditions for communities to exercise greater control over their health. The school environment is an extremely significant space of socialization and therefore promote healthy dietary practices.
2006 data from the Ministry of Health on food-related diseases in the stage of childhood (0-5 years) indicate growth in the number of children who are overweight, both for age and for height, while it reduces this range old ones with low height for age. Between 5 and 9 years, we found 34.8% of boys and 32% of girls are overweight and 16.6% of boys and 11.8% of girls with obesity, the data from the Household Budget Survey - POF 2008 / 2009. According to the source, stunting is 7.2% for males and 6.3% for females. Everything suggests that these trends have widened the most recent period, ie the increase in overweight and obesity and reducing malnutrition.
The reality, therefore, reinforces the importance of health promotion in schools, which may play a key role in the nutritional recovery of children. The National School Feeding Programme (PNAE) is undoubtedly the largest feeding program active in the country. Every day, more than 44 million meals are served in public schools, funded in part by the federal government and supplemented with funds from municipalities and state governments. Even with all the advances obtained with the program if you do not get that all students have the right to a school feeding quality.
 

The researcher Chico Menezes (Reuters) School feeding quality is, given this reality, a key tool for the recovery of healthy eating habits and, above all, to promote food security of children and youth in Brazil. It is important to remember that the right to adequate food should not be interpreted with a minimum package of calories, proteins and other specific nutrients. The "adequacy" also refers to the social, economic, cultural, climatic, ecological conditions, among others.
Public policies designed transparently and with clear objectives are essential so that we can define the causes of the problem and responsibilities. This is true in the case of school feeding, where all the different levels of government - federal, state and municipalities should understand the specific roles to play on a program that means a lot to the current and future health of children forming their clientele. From the Union, should be taken to recover the value of the per capita school meals, which is passed on to states and municipalities. States should articulate their municipalities in order to better achieve the program's implementation and municipalities invest in school feeding quality. Awareness of the Human Right to Adequate Food, by governments and society, is progressive and is gaining spaces in Brazil. And the National School Meal Program occupies a key place in the guarantee of this right.
* Chico Menezes is a researcher at the Brazilian Institute of Social and Economic Analysis (IBASE) and served as chairperson of the National Council for Food Security and Nutrition (CONSEA), 2004-2007.



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