Nutrição alimentar: o papel do ensino de biologia na sensibilização alimentar de jovens estudantes do ensino médio da cidade de Uruçuí-PI

Abstract

Healthy nutrition promotes health and protects the body against disease. And the eating habits that we have start during childhood within the family where the first meals are offered. The school environment becomes indispensable in making students aware of the practice of good eating habits as it is the place where children and young people spend most of their time and exchange experiences in food choices. This study aims to raise the awareness of high school students of the Federal Institute of Piauí in the municipality of Uruçuí about the importance of the daily practice of healthy eating. The study was carried out in three stages: the first was the study of the subject and theme selection; the second was the elaboration and application of a thematic questionnaire and the third was data tabulation and discussion of results. The division of food into several meals, as well as having meals at the right periods of the day and a pleasant, clean and distraction-free place, allow greater awareness of what is being consumed and indirectly reduces the excessive consumption of calories or non-nutritive foods. Breakfast raises the level of glucose in the blood, providing energy necessary for the performance of bodily activities. The research result was satisfactory, as it achieved the proposed objectives and could count on the opinion of the students to improve the quality of the promotion of healthy eating