Educação nutricional: uma revisão integrativa da literatura

Abstract

Nutrition is one of the major determinants of health and well-being of human beings. Therefore, nutrition education is extremely important in the life of an individual at every stage of your life, old age childhood. Nutrition education can lead to change in a poor nutritional condition for a better quality condition. It aims to make autonomous subjects for healthier choices within your reality. The Dietician plays an important role in promoting the re-education of eating habits of the population, making the disease prevention and health promotion by encouraging the change of lifestyle and incorporating a healthy lifestyle. Thus, this study aimed to identify scientific publications on nutrition education in virtual databases. Was used as methodology the Integrative Review (RI ), with research in the Virtual Library databases Health , SCIELO being selected fifteen articles that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria pre-established. As a result, it was observed that many published articles written by professionals with training in Nutrition, and most of them, acting as teachers. But there are also articles written by other health professionals. It was found that nutrition education is a very important topic, but still little explored by universities in the training of nutrition professionals.