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Obesity and overweight of children are a major global problem nowadays. According to the Regional... more Obesity and overweight of children are a major global problem nowadays. According to the Regional Office for Europe (2018), obesity has risen three times over the last two decades worldwide. The attention is currently focused on population-wide health promotion and disease prevention through comprehensive health education, starting in the early age of individuals, aimed at slowing down the increasing incidence of obesity and related health issues. The purpose of this research was to design nutrition education intervention based on determined dietary habits and healthy nutrition knowledge of ninth graders from the elementary schools in the Czech Republic, who have completed the compulsory school attendance. The designed interventional program reflects current nutritional habits and knowledge about nutrition of Czech students and nutritional recommendations for the Czech population targeted to children, which also corresponds to the nutritional topics integrated into the National Heal...
There is a need for improving nutritional lifestyles for children and adolescents inorder to stre... more There is a need for improving nutritional lifestyles for children and adolescents inorder to strengthen their health, increase the quality of life of the next generation and decrease the health costs and prevalence of obesity and other health-related problems. In 2007 the Health Education was implemented in to the curriculum of youth between the ages of 3 to 19, to straighten the health of Czech students. At present, the issue of health and proper nutrition is an essential part of primary and secondary education. Currently, there is no required standardized curriculum for Nutrition Education in Czech Republic. Main research objective of this study was to analyze and to evaluate the current phase of implementation of Nutrition Education within compulsory (lower secondary) education in the Czech grammar schools. Survey results identify besides the most common taught content of Nutrition Education, how is Nutrition Education curricula being delivered to the Czech students. The results...
Obesity and overweight of children are a major global problem nowadays. According to the Regional... more Obesity and overweight of children are a major global problem nowadays. According to the Regional Office for Europe (2018), obesity has risen three times over the last two decades worldwide. The attention is currently focused on population-wide health promotion and disease prevention through comprehensive health education, starting in the early age of individuals, aimed at slowing down the increasing incidence of obesity and related health issues. The purpose of this research was to design nutrition education intervention based on determined dietary habits and healthy nutrition knowledge of ninth graders from the elementary schools in the Czech Republic, who have completed the compulsory school attendance. The designed interventional program reflects current nutritional habits and knowledge about nutrition of Czech students and nutritional recommendations for the Czech population targeted to children, which also corresponds to the nutritional topics integrated into the National Heal...
There is a need for improving nutritional lifestyles for children and adolescents inorder to stre... more There is a need for improving nutritional lifestyles for children and adolescents inorder to strengthen their health, increase the quality of life of the next generation and decrease the health costs and prevalence of obesity and other health-related problems. In 2007 the Health Education was implemented in to the curriculum of youth between the ages of 3 to 19, to straighten the health of Czech students. At present, the issue of health and proper nutrition is an essential part of primary and secondary education. Currently, there is no required standardized curriculum for Nutrition Education in Czech Republic. Main research objective of this study was to analyze and to evaluate the current phase of implementation of Nutrition Education within compulsory (lower secondary) education in the Czech grammar schools. Survey results identify besides the most common taught content of Nutrition Education, how is Nutrition Education curricula being delivered to the Czech students. The results...