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[Dietary assessment program evaluation (third-year secondary school students)]
A Iturbe Lete1, A Perales Antón
1Instituto Oncológico de San Sebastián, España. aiturbe@euskalnet.net
Antecedents:
The appropriate contribution of nutrients determines the phenotypic expression of the genotype.
Objective:
The Dietary Assessment Program consists on the transmission of necessary information to carry out a balanced diet. AMBIT: The program embraces twenty-three schools in the Basque Country, on a total of 2,400 girls and boys, studying 3rd year of ESO.
Subjects:
The evaluation was carried out on 130 girls and boys at Liceo Santo Tomás in Donostia. The DAP consists of an educational program with the students (theoretical and practical workshop), educational program for parents and educators and evaluation program of the Dietary Intervention.
Results:
The students' response was positive. The parents and educators maintained the same constructive attitude, in all the projects.
Evaluation:
61% of the teenagers said that their diet stays equally (28% previous balanced diet), 2% worse and 36% find an improvement (3% great improvement). In 94% of those interviewed there is a theoretical-subjective agreement in the answer. 85% of the teenagers are able to identify the Mediterranean balanced diet correctly.
Conclusions:
36% of the youths said that the quality of their diet has improved. 85% knows the balanced dietary pattern. These results encourage us to continue working in the DAP, perfecting and modernizing it. A good diet facilitates a good genetic expression and, therefore an appropriate nutrition determines the quantity and quality of life. Teenagers don't take a balanced diet. A better nutritional education would improve the health of future generations.
