RT Journal Article
T1 Promotion of Healthy Eating in Spanish High Schools
A1 Garrido Fernández, Almudena
A1 García Padilla, Francisca María
A1 Sánchez Ramos, José Luis
A1 Gómez Salgado, Juan
A1 Ramos Pichardo, Juan Diego
A1 Ortega Galán, Ángela María
AB Obesity and overweight are both public health problems, affecting increasingly youngerpopulations. Promoting healthy eating should be a must in schools. Therefore, getting to knowthe eating habits of a population group as sensitive as adolescents and whether their schools applyan appropriate policy for their nutrition should be a priority. Therefore, the objective of this studywas to discover whether the Secondary Education High Schools of Huelva and its province couldbe considered as centres that promote a healthy diet. A cross-sectional descriptive study wasdeveloped using a questionnaire comprising 39 indicators that were evaluated on 5 previously pilotedsubcategories of validated information. Data were obtained through a questionnaire presented to200 key informants with four different profiles. The highest score for promoting healthy eating in thecentres was related to the subcategory “School Curriculum”, whereas the lowest means were thoserelated to the Community category. No practical activities such as outings or cooking workshopswere carried out. The low participation in activities promoting healthy eating habits, research andhealth training must be highlighted. Little attention was paid to compliance and monitoring of schoolcafeterias. Most of the studied Secondary Education High Schools did not meet the requisites to beconsidered promoters of healthy eating habits. Only three of the studied centres can be consideredhealthy-eating promoters. Institutional commitment is needed to favour the intersectorality of thedifferent agents implied and to provide teaching units and other teaching profiles with the necessaryresources, training, and tools to achieve integral and protective teaching activities aimed at promotingstudents’ healthy eating habits.
PB MDPI
SN 2072-6643
YR 2020
FD 2020-07
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18541
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/18541
LA eng
NO Garrido-Fernández, A., García-Padilla, F. M., Sánchez-Ramos, J. L., Gómez-Salgado, J., Ramos-Pichardo, J. D., & Ortega-Galán, Á. M. (2020). Promotion of Healthy Eating in Spanish High Schools. In Nutrients (Vol. 12, Issue 7, p. 1979). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12071979
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 15 jul 2026