O papel educativo do profissional nutricionista nos Ensinos Fundamental e Médio no Brasil

Abstract

Food and nutrition education play an important role in the individual's relationship with his feeding since childhood. Adopting healthy eating habits brings positive consequences to population health in the short, medium and long term. The school is a place where children and youth spend a good part of their time. For this reason it becomes an important location of knowledge production and development of action that guides health promotion and disease prevention. Nutritionist has in her academic bases technical skills which contribute to improve individual and community health. The objective, therefore, with this integrative literature review, is to look for studies that provided evidence of the importance of nutritionists work within the school environment of elementary and secondary education in Brazil. A guiding question was defined, from which were chosen descriptors, allowing to select scientificarticles in the LILACS and SCIELO database between 2007 and 2013. The selected articles were submitted to the inclusion criteria and only those articles that met all and which theme was nutrition education for students from middle and high school were selected for the sample. The studies were characterized from the year of the study, target, interventionmethods, goals and result. It was observed that in all of them the figure of the nutritionist was important to develop actions and the students were included in activities to arouse critical thinking and to care with their food. Just a few studies were found in this research which suggests that nutritionists may be acting up significantly, but few are publishing theirexperiences. So it is recognized the need for new studies that highlight dietitians practices in the school, developed by themselves, with theme Food and Nutritional Education