The food pyramid adapted to physically active adolescents as a nutrition education tool

Autor: Camila Brandão Gonçalves, Júlia Aparecida Devidé Nogueira, Teresa Helena Macedo da Costa
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Revista Brasileira de Ciências do Esporte, Vol 36, Iss 1, Pp 29-44 (2014)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2179-3255
0101-3289
DOI: 10.1590/S0101-32892014000100003
Popis: This study aimed to assess the understanding of the Food Pyramid Adapted to Physically Active Adolescents as an educational tool to improve nutrition knowledge. Adolescents engaged in sport training responded to a nutrition knowledge questionnaire before and after the intervention. The pyramid intervention group received the printed educational material, and the broad intervention group received the printed material followed by a lecture. As a result, mean initial nutrition knowledge was average (59.9 ± 18 points), increasing (p
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