Utilização de ação educativa na promoção da alimentação saudável com escolares: relato de experiência no município de Amargosa-BA

Abstract

The National School Feeding Program (PNAE) aims to promote healthy and adequate food through meals that contribute to the student's growth and development, as well as biopsychosocial knowledge, school performance and the formation of healthy eating habits through the provision school feeding, and food and nutrition education actions during their stay in school (Brazil, 2013). The nutritionist responsible for the execution of the PNAE has among its various attributions to suggest and carry out food and nutritional education activities in school environments, contributing to the formation of the students' good eating habits. The objective was to reflect on the experience of using a methodology as educational action in the field of Food and Nutrition Education that imply in the promotion of healthy eating of schoolchildren. In order to do so, the methodological strategy was selected "Magic box" as an educational activity, in which a unit of each fruit is added inside, and at random a student is selected to discover what the fruit is by touch and the characteristics related to texture, size and shape. The educational activity contributed to increase knowledge about healthy eating and the benefits of fruit consumption for schoolchildren. The school environment is an ideal place to implement these actions and it is possible to articulate and carry them out with the educators.