Consumo alimentar de escolares da rede pública e privada de ensino de Dourados-MS

Abstract

It is known that obesity is directly connected with not healthy eating, which contributes to the significant increase of diseases in general population in Brazil.Examining the frequency of eating healthy and unhealthy food markers according to socio-demographic and economic characteristics in schoolchildren aged 7 to 10 yearsincomplete (9 years 11months 29 days) in Dourados-MS. The studied population consisted of 1054 schoolchildren, both sexes, enrolled at primary education in public and private schools. In the present study, the variables related to food consuming from the FFQ were evaluated. It was observed that 68.2% of the students consumed beans daily, for vegetables and fruits, that percentage was 51.4% and 46.1%, respectively. About the daily eating among schoolchildren for sweets and / or goodies, it reached 42.2%, 64.6% for some ultraprocessed food, 5.8% for fried salted and 18.9% for soft drinks. The main relevance of this study was known and exported from the standard of schoolchildren's food. It is expected that these informations alert, help the health actions and demonstrate that school also can play an important function in promoting healthyeating habits.