Cosumo em escolares de instituições particulares do Plano Piloto, Distrioto Federal

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

To achieve food and nutritional security, it is necessary, besides access to adequate food in quantity, the guarantee of food quality. It is important to offer adequate quantity of energy and nutrients necessary to maintain good health. Therefore, it is fundamental to notice that food insecurity does not only reflect in malnutrition situations, but also in excess situations due to an unbalanced diet. One of the nutritionist challenges that work in scholars food service units is to stimulate positive food practices in children. The objective of this study was to evaluate the nutritional composition and lunch consumption in scholars of private schools in Brasilia, DF. In this study, 161 children were evaluated, age 7 to 10 years old, enrolled in 6 different all day schools. For nutrition status evaluation, children were weighed and measured to determine Body mass index (BMI). They were classified as low weight (BMI≤ percentile 3), eutrophic (percentile 3

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scholar menu ficha técnica de preparação lunch consumo cardápio escolar consumption nutricao almoço technical preparation file

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