The importance of nutritional education in childhood for obesity prevention

• Autor(a) principal: Resende, Vanessa de Almeida
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Navarro, Antonio Coppi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbone.com.br/index.php/rbone/article/view/75
• topic: Obesity; Nutritional education; Eating behavior; Child; Obesidad; Educación nutricional; Comportamiento alimentario; Obesità; Educazione alimentare; Comportamento alimentare; Bambino; Obesidade; Educação nutricional; Comportamento alimentar; Criança; Obesidade; Educação nutricional; Comportamento alimentar; Criança

Introduction: The world-wide prevalence of obesity has been presenting a fast increase, having been characterized as a true world-wide epidemic. These data are preoccupying, since obese people have a greater possibility to develop not transmissible chronic illnesses. Objective: To show the necessity to prevent obesity since birth, through a nutritional education at childhood, since obese children have a 40% chance to become obese adults. Revision of Literature: One of the biggest obesity factors is due to the alimentary behavior. This behavior has psychological, socio-cultural, physiological and economic fundaments. It is during childhood that the basis for the alimentary behavior at the adult age is formed. For this reason, the development of a healthy life style at the adult age is directly related to the stabilization of thealimentary habits during childhood. There are evidences that both obesity and risk factors for coronations illnesses at the adult age are related to the alimentary consumption in early childhood and those children who have their meals together with their family consume more fruits and vegetables, fewer alcoholic drinks and fat in and out of their homes. Conclusion: Through these data, a great necessity for nutritional education programs has been observed at schools where these are being introduced, directing their objective to prevent obesity and its risks factors. Children must be guided and enabled to perform the adequate ingestion of nutrients, as well as to choose heather kinds of food in their meals, therefore it becomes of vital important that the school curriculum provide studies on nutrition and healthy life.