Nutritional Transition: A Reviewo of Students' Eating Habits

• Autor(a) principal: Ricardo, Aline Juliana
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Pereira, Rita de Cássia Garcia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira Multidisciplinar
• DOI: 10.25061/2527-2675/ReBraM/2012.v15i2.85
• Texto Completo: http://revistarebram.com/index.php/revistauniara/article/view/85
• topic: Students; Eating habits; Nutritional transition.; Escolares; Hábito alimentar; Transição nutricional.

The nutritional transition process has started in Brazil since the modifications of the standard Brazilian food also concomitant with changes in the epidemiological scenario, resulting in a decline of malnutrition, but in a significant increase in obesity in children and adolescents in all socioeconomic classes. The school age comprises the age group between seven and ten years old and is characterized as a period of growth with high nutritional requirements that must be supplied with quality food and in sufficient quantity to prevent future health problems. For this reason, school, teachers and family members should be responsible for the feeding habits of these children, through nutrition education projects, activities related to good nutrition and consistent information according to the real world of children. The aim of this paper is to describe some aspects of the food profile of students and its influence over the increasing incidence and prevalence of obesity and associated to co-morbidities, as well as to identify the transition process that the country has been experiencing.