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Promotion of Healthy Eating in Spanish High Schools

Obesity and overweight are both public health problems, affecting increasingly younger populations. Promoting healthy eating should be a must in schools. Therefore, getting to know the eating habits of a population group as sensitive as adolescents and whether their schools apply an appropriate poli...

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Autores principales: Garrido-Fernández, Almudena, García-Padilla, Francisca María, Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis, Gómez-Salgado, Juan, Ramos-Pichardo, Juan Diego, Ortega-Galán, Ángela María
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Publicado: MDPI 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7400301/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32635250
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12071979
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author Garrido-Fernández, Almudena
García-Padilla, Francisca María
Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis
Gómez-Salgado, Juan
Ramos-Pichardo, Juan Diego
Ortega-Galán, Ángela María
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García-Padilla, Francisca María
Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis
Gómez-Salgado, Juan
Ramos-Pichardo, Juan Diego
Ortega-Galán, Ángela María
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description Obesity and overweight are both public health problems, affecting increasingly younger populations. Promoting healthy eating should be a must in schools. Therefore, getting to know the eating habits of a population group as sensitive as adolescents and whether their schools apply an appropriate policy for their nutrition should be a priority. Therefore, the objective of this study was to discover whether the Secondary Education High Schools of Huelva and its province could be considered as centres that promote a healthy diet. A cross-sectional descriptive study was developed using a questionnaire comprising 39 indicators that were evaluated on 5 previously piloted subcategories of validated information. Data were obtained through a questionnaire presented to 200 key informants with four different profiles. The highest score for promoting healthy eating in the centres was related to the subcategory “School Curriculum”, whereas the lowest means were those related to the Community category. No practical activities such as outings or cooking workshops were carried out. The low participation in activities promoting healthy eating habits, research and health training must be highlighted. Little attention was paid to compliance and monitoring of school cafeterias. Most of the studied Secondary Education High Schools did not meet the requisites to be considered promoters of healthy eating habits. Only three of the studied centres can be considered healthy-eating promoters. Institutional commitment is needed to favour the intersectorality of the different agents implied and to provide teaching units and other teaching profiles with the necessary resources, training, and tools to achieve integral and protective teaching activities aimed at promoting students’ healthy eating habits.
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spelling pubmed-74003012020-08-23 Promotion of Healthy Eating in Spanish High Schools Garrido-Fernández, Almudena García-Padilla, Francisca María Sánchez-Ramos, José Luis Gómez-Salgado, Juan Ramos-Pichardo, Juan Diego Ortega-Galán, Ángela María Nutrients Article Obesity and overweight are both public health problems, affecting increasingly younger populations. Promoting healthy eating should be a must in schools. Therefore, getting to know the eating habits of a population group as sensitive as adolescents and whether their schools apply an appropriate policy for their nutrition should be a priority. Therefore, the objective of this study was to discover whether the Secondary Education High Schools of Huelva and its province could be considered as centres that promote a healthy diet. A cross-sectional descriptive study was developed using a questionnaire comprising 39 indicators that were evaluated on 5 previously piloted subcategories of validated information. Data were obtained through a questionnaire presented to 200 key informants with four different profiles. The highest score for promoting healthy eating in the centres was related to the subcategory “School Curriculum”, whereas the lowest means were those related to the Community category. No practical activities such as outings or cooking workshops were carried out. The low participation in activities promoting healthy eating habits, research and health training must be highlighted. Little attention was paid to compliance and monitoring of school cafeterias. Most of the studied Secondary Education High Schools did not meet the requisites to be considered promoters of healthy eating habits. Only three of the studied centres can be considered healthy-eating promoters. Institutional commitment is needed to favour the intersectorality of the different agents implied and to provide teaching units and other teaching profiles with the necessary resources, training, and tools to achieve integral and protective teaching activities aimed at promoting students’ healthy eating habits. MDPI 2020-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7400301/ /pubmed/32635250 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu12071979 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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