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impact of nutritional education on changing dietary habits prehrana otrok in mladostnikov | nutrition of children and adolescents
adolescents
Ana Stepančič, Breda Prunk Franetič, Tamara Poklar Vatovec
University of Primorska, Faculty of Health Sciences, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
Introduction: The eating habits of children and adolescents fail to be appropri-
ate. The purpose of the study was to examine whether nutritional education,
which also includes the skills of preparing healthy meals, affects the changes in
eating habits of children and adolescents.
Methods: Sixteen overweight children and adolescents who participated in
the obesity and overweight treatment programme within the “My challenge”
camp, were included in the study. The study was conducted from February
2018 to September 2018. The data were collected with a questionnaire on eat-
ing habits, a questionnaire on the frequency of individual food consumption
and the measurement of anthropometric parameters.
Results: After completed nutrition education and 6-month monitoring, we
have achieved a change in eating habits. The subjects increased the frequen-
cy of eating nutrient-rich foods. They significantly reduced the frequency of
consumption of unadvised foods, which also reflected that girls and boys lost
weight, ITM, waistline, quotient waist/high and percentile BMI.
Discussion and conclusion: Nutrition education should include measures in dif-
ferent areas. It is very important that children and young people acquire nu-
trition knowledge and food behaviours that enable them to plan and prepare
healthy meals and transfer their knowledge to their parents.
Keywords: dietary habits of children and adolescents, nutrition education,
nutrition knowledge
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adolescents
Ana Stepančič, Breda Prunk Franetič, Tamara Poklar Vatovec
University of Primorska, Faculty of Health Sciences, Polje 42, 6310 Izola, Slovenia
Introduction: The eating habits of children and adolescents fail to be appropri-
ate. The purpose of the study was to examine whether nutritional education,
which also includes the skills of preparing healthy meals, affects the changes in
eating habits of children and adolescents.
Methods: Sixteen overweight children and adolescents who participated in
the obesity and overweight treatment programme within the “My challenge”
camp, were included in the study. The study was conducted from February
2018 to September 2018. The data were collected with a questionnaire on eat-
ing habits, a questionnaire on the frequency of individual food consumption
and the measurement of anthropometric parameters.
Results: After completed nutrition education and 6-month monitoring, we
have achieved a change in eating habits. The subjects increased the frequen-
cy of eating nutrient-rich foods. They significantly reduced the frequency of
consumption of unadvised foods, which also reflected that girls and boys lost
weight, ITM, waistline, quotient waist/high and percentile BMI.
Discussion and conclusion: Nutrition education should include measures in dif-
ferent areas. It is very important that children and young people acquire nu-
trition knowledge and food behaviours that enable them to plan and prepare
healthy meals and transfer their knowledge to their parents.
Keywords: dietary habits of children and adolescents, nutrition education,
nutrition knowledge
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