Food consumption in and around the school
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Keywords
Food habit, Overweight, Child
Abstract
Background: the elementary school students usually stay in school 4.5 hours a day in Mexico. The main food consumption is outside school. The objective was to explore behaviors on food consumption beyond school environment.
Methods: descriptive trial that includes 173 children, both sexes, from public elementary school in Mexico City. Eating habits were obtained through questionnaire and anthropometric characteristics from physical measurement.
Results: participants reported to consume soft drinks and canned juices at high frequency and quantity (80 %) and the low consumption of animal foods. They also eat industrialized dairy products with high caloric content and low in protein. Moreover, 30 % of children eats 4 or 5 times a day, whereas 10 % eats one or two times a day. These results were associated with the somatometric characteristics of children, who presented 37.6 % of overweight or obesity while 12 % were underweight.
Conclusions: it is necessary that health education involves teachers, parents and children in programs for obesity prevention with the objective of increase healthy behaviors.
Key words
food habits
overweight
Background: the elementary school students usually stay in school 4.5 hours a day in Mexico. The main food consumption is outside school. The objective was to explore behaviors on food consumption beyond school environment.
Methods: descriptive trial that includes 173 children, both sexes, from public elementary school in Mexico City. Eating habits were obtained through questionnaire and anthropometric characteristics from physical measurement.
Results: participants reported to consume soft drinks and canned juices at high frequency and quantity (80 %) and the low consumption of animal foods. They also eat industrialized dairy products with high caloric content and low in protein. Moreover, 30 % of children eats 4 or 5 times a day, whereas 10 % eats one or two times a day. These results were associated with the somatometric characteristics of children, who presented 37.6 % of overweight or obesity while 12 % were underweight.
Conclusions: it is necessary that health education involves teachers, parents and children in programs for obesity prevention with the objective of increase healthy behaviors.
Key words
food habits
overweight
childBackground: the elementary school students usually stay in school 4.5 hours a day in Mexico. The main food consumption is outside school. The objective was to explore behaviors on food consumption beyond school environment.
Methods: descriptive trial that includes 173 children, both sexes, from public elementary school in Mexico City. Eating habits were obtained through questionnaire and anthropometric characteristics from physical measurement.
Results: participants reported to consume soft drinks and canned juices at high frequency and quantity (80 %) and the low consumption of animal foods. They also eat industrialized dairy products with high caloric content and low in protein. Moreover, 30 % of children eats 4 or 5 times a day, whereas 10 % eats one or two times a day. These results were associated with the somatometric characteristics of children, who presented 37.6 % of overweight or obesity while 12 % were underweight.
Conclusions: it is necessary that health education involves teachers, parents and children in programs for obesity prevention with the objective of increase healthy behaviors.
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