Prevenção de doenças crônicas não transmissíveis: educação alimentar com trabalhadores da indústria

Abstract

Access to healthy food , especially the workers , it makes up one of the tactics of public health are essential for addressing the food and nutrition problems in terms of businesses and industries . A healthy diet should consist in a paid focus , which is capable of simultaneously prevent diseases caused by nutritional deficiencies , and a reduction in the prevalence of overweight and other chronic diseases associated . We sought to delineate the objective of this work was to identify studies in the literature have focused on Nutrition Education in the Prevention of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases in industrial workers. This is an integrative literature review. The search was conducted in the databases : LILACS, Scielo and BDENF. The criteria for inclusion of items that were part of this research were: national and international, since 2006 and related to food industry workers publications. Results showed that the majority were in the Portuguese language. The data show that obesity , hypertension and diabetes are propitiated by food profile found among Brazilian workers , there is a growing participation of greases , animal fats , processed foods , high in sugar and sodium and a decrease of grain , legumes , fruits and vegetables . We conclude that the high frequency of modifiable risk factors are troubling and reinforce the need for implementation of actions aimed at health promotion , prevention of NCDs and intervention strategies in helping with health professionals . It was evident also that the dialogic educational activity is able to awaken in man critical reflections that can cause significant changes in the attitudes of.