O uso da pirâmide alimentar de baixo custo: como proposta de ensino à uma alimentação saudável.

Abstract

The difficulties faced by the students in the 7th grade elementary school within the scope of food education are worrying factors that significantly interfere in the student’s health, increasing the number of students who reach obesity without having enough self-esteem to perform a healthy diet. This concern leads us to analyze with greater emphasis the aforementioned problem and to seek mechanisms that allow to stimulate the students to a food education. To achieve positive results we use the low-cost food pyramid to activate in students a taste for healthy eating in a pleasurable way. Because through this practice in the school community, the students understand the importance of eating habits, and mainly the value of food for health and well-being, and make them aware of healthy eating. It is important to assert that this methodology, besides working with orality, interaction and socialization of the students, helps in the observation, organization and transcription of the received information for daily practice in an autonomous way. This is the great challenge to be worked on, because work must be initiated within the social and family environment that they live and experience. In this research it was obtained satisfactory results that refer to the practice of the food pyramid construction as support to effectively develop the process of food education. This study had as its main purpose to reflect the contribution of the school in the education of healthy eating habits. Therefore, it is fundamental the valuation of the educational practice in the classroom socializing the content the reality lived in day by day.