Autor: |
Margareth Xavier da Silva, Débora Pinto de Oliveira Santos, Rogério Mello Gonçalves Filho, Anna Paola Trindade Rocha Pierucci, Cristiana Melo Porto Pedrosa |
Jazyk: |
English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese |
Rok vydání: |
2017 |
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Zdroj: |
Demetra, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 59-68 (2017) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2238-913X |
DOI: |
10.12957/demetra.2017.23712 |
Popis: |
Schools are considered to be an optimal space for health education. The meals offered to students are an opportunity for learning and socialization. In this context, the role of the cooks goes beyond the preparation of meals, as they often need to plan the menu and replace some food items. Objective: This study promoted a Professional Development Course with cooks from public schools in Xerém district, in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in order to broaden knowledge about healthy eating. Methods: The course was attended by 26 school cooks, and it was taught for four consecutive days in classrooms of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, at the Institute of Nutrition Josué de Castro. Previous and later evaluations about knowledge of healthy eating were performed by means of games: the Healthy Dish Game and the Pyramid Food Game. The proposed activities consisted of a lecture, development of educational materials by the participants, and a cooking workshop. The software R and the Shapiro-Wilk tests were used to evaluate if the data has a normal distribution, and the Wilcoxon test (p |
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