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This bachelor thesis deals with dietary habits and needs of adolescents and is aiming to evaluate the diet of secondary school students and factors that affect their dietary choices. The thesis is divided into two parts, theoretical and practical. The main focus of the theoretical part is to define and explain terms such as an adolescence and its specifics, healthy diet and life style, nutritional needs of adolescents, food pyramid and factors, that might influence adolescents´ diet. Marginally also describes risks of unhealthy diet. Methods used in the theoretical part are mainly research and study of professional sources together with making, analyzing and comparing excerpts and their synthesis. The practical part is aiming to determine adolescents´ knowledge of healthy diet, how they follow rules of healthy eating, and which factors are the most influential in their dietary preferences. The thesis uses quantitative method of research, the data is collected on a questionnaire, that was specifically designed for purposes of this survey. The respondents are students of following secondary schools: Secondary Technical School in Jihlava and Secondary Technical School in Třebíč. |