Educação Nutricional: Do Jeca Tatu À Obesidade

Abstract

The article aims to give an overview on nutrition education in Brazil from its inception to the present, through literature searches in recent years, discussed in the field of history, culture, nutrition and food in our country, in order to highlight the basis of public policy, very well highlighted by Monteiro Lobato and Josué de Castro in his literary works. This context indicates that the purpose of educational proposals in food and nutrition is more support individuals with adequate, correct and consistent information on food, nutrition and prevention of nutritional problems and less help them in decision making. Social, cultural and economic changes reflect the way of life of the population. In the early twentieth century, the evils afflicting the population were epidemics caused by communicable diseases and some have not yet been addressed, such as dengue. Already in the twenty-first century, there were changes in the epidemiological profile and today spread to non-communicable chronic diseases. Currently, the importance of this type of education in the lives of citizens and their community residing in awareness through teaching strategies, respect and appreciation of cultural, economic, psychological, environmental and social, grounded in education. Constantly measure the impact that inadequate eating habits can cause a population, it is the result of an improvement in the quality of life of individuals and their community.