The importance of Food and Nutrition Education as a strategy for hypertensive elderly: An integrative review

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Sâmia Camille Correia
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Almeida , Cristiane Souto, Couto , Livia Viviane Guimarães do, Santos, Jamille de Lima, Nunes, Marcília Ingrid Lima Barroso, Araújo, Silvana Medeiros de, Melo, Paloma Katlheen Moura
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• DOI: 10.33448/rsd-v10i9.17832
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/17832
• topic: Hipertensión; Mayores; Educación alimentaria y nutricional.; Hypertension; Seniors; Food and nutrition education.; Hipertensão; Idoso; Educação alimentar e nutricional.

Food and nutrition education is an important tool whose primary objective is to provide all people who use them with physical well-being, in addition to preventing the onset or worsening of pathologies, thus making possible greater longevity with maximum quality of life. The present study is an integrative review prepared methodologically according to the Manual of Methodological Guidelines of the Ministry of Health and the assistance of Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses Protocols. The search process was carried out in The Scientific Electronic Library Online, Virtual Health Library and PubMed (National Library of Medicine) databases, with use in the period corresponding to the months of January to June 2021. The results found through the electronic search in the databases totaled 8 articles. As for the discussions, the aim is to facilitate the understanding of the importance of food and nutrition education for the elderly. It is concluded that Food and Nutrition Education can act actively in the human aging process and can be considered a strategy to promote adequate and healthy eating, and thus promote health and quality of life, working with interdisciplinary and active tools aimed at the elderly in the context of Systemic Arterial Hypertension.