Healthy food and nutrition education in the third age/ALIMENTACAO SAUDAVEL E EDUCACAO NUTRICIONAL NA TERCEIRA IDADE

With the significant increase in life expectancy, the age pyramid has been reversing in last decades and, the advance of aging brings with it the need to implement actions and policies aimed at the prevention and promotion of quality of life for the third age. In this context, nutritional education...

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Published inRevista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento Vol. 14; no. 84; p. 105
Main Authors Schuler, Amanda Caroline, Vieira, Mariluce Poerschke
Format Journal Article
LanguagePortuguese
Published Instituto Brasileiro de Pesquisa e Ensino em Fisiologia do Exercicio. IBPEFEX 01.01.2020
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Summary:With the significant increase in life expectancy, the age pyramid has been reversing in last decades and, the advance of aging brings with it the need to implement actions and policies aimed at the prevention and promotion of quality of life for the third age. In this context, nutritional education emerges as a tool for proper dietary orientation and can easily be inserted in the Universities of the Third Age that provide additional knowledge and actions in health, culture, leisure and sports. This research aimed to identify the knowledge on healthy eating in the elderly in order to develop effective awareness programs on this topic, contributing to disease prevention and treatment and promoting health. This is a study developed in a higher education institution in the town of Videira -SC with students enrolled at UNITI (University of the Third Age). A total of 43 individuals participated, being 90.2% women and 9.8% men with an average age of 60.24 years old. A socioeconomic questionnaire and a nutrition questionnaire were applied at two times, before and after a nutrition education lecture. As a result, significant adequacy was observed in response to questions about the major source of calcium and knowledge about functional foods, demonstrating that intervention activities can have a very positive effect on nutritional knowledge in this audience, corroborating similar studies. Thus, it is suggested that further studies address different types of intervention to analyze and create more effective strategies for health promotion and disease prevention in all areas that affect aging.
ISSN:1981-9919
1981-9919