Práticas educativas para alimentação saudável nas escolas

Abstract

According to the World Health Organization, the number of children and adolescents with obesity is increasing. Therefore, this research addresses the theme healthy eating in the school context and starts from the following research question: how the educational practices carried out by teachers of basic education, between the years 2017 to 2021, have stimulated the promotion of healthy eating habits among young people? The objective of this study was to investigate the educational practices carried out in schools by teachers, between 2017 and 2021, aimed at promoting healthy eating habits among young people. This is an systematic review, using the Lilacs, SciELO and CAPES Periodicals databases, based on the following descriptors: “public policies for food at school”; “educational practices on food at school” and “the teacher's role in healthy eating”. This review was carried out in six stages: definition of the research question, sampling in the literature, selection and categorization of the texts found, evaluation of the studies included in the review, interpretation and presentation of the results. Seven studies composed the sample and were cataloged and identified by title, author, journal, year of publication, educational practice and considerations. In interpreting the results, a critical analysis of the included studies was carried out, carrying out a discussion of the results in the light of the scientific literature. It was found that the selected articles pointed to the existence of educational practices addressing the theme healthy eating, in most of them the school garden and cooking workshop. In view of the results, it was possible to conclude that the educational practices of healthy eating at school contribute to the change of behavior and the formation of new attitudes for the construction of more adequate eating habits.