PADRÃO ALIMENTAR DO ENSINO INFANTIL DA CIDADE DE LONTRA, NORTE DE MINAS GERAIS

Abstract

The School contrast as a privileged space where children attend and eat the most of their meals. This way, learn to develop healthy eating habits. The objective of this study is to describe and analyze the dietary pattern of the two public Child Education institutions in the city of Lontra, North of Minas Gerais. In more detail, seek to know the preparation, variability, care, time and specialized monitoring of the menus, as well as the importance and benefits of a healthy diet. This is a descriptive, cross-sectional and qualitative research. The instrument used for data collection consisted of an open questionnaire, produced by the authors and directed to a nutrition professional who works in the two aforementioned institutions. According to the answers obtained, there is nutritional action with specialized monitoring, which has its guiding principles focused on work concerned with variability, food properties, time and acceptability, all within an interest that contrast, the children’s life quality. In general terms, the analysis of this short excerpt, although introductory in nature, explains the imperative awareness of the country's public sectors regarding the unrestricted and widespread introduction of nutritionists in the Brazilian school environment.

Keywords: Child Education. Nutrition. Dietary pattern. Lontra, MG.