Alimentação saudável e sustentável: desenvolvimento de um programa educativo virtual para adolescentes

Abstract

Food plays a fundamental role during all phases of life and, especially in adolescence, plays important functions for proper development. Adolescents are often considered a group exposed to nutritional risk due to their eating habits. The adoption of a diet based on ultraprocessed foods can interfere unfavorably in the health and quality of life of adolescents. Food and nutrition education is the field of knowledge that aims to promote the autonomous and voluntary practice of healthy eating habits. Adolescents constitute a population group that requires new ways of producing health. In order to carry out actions of food and nutrition education education with adolescents, the educational program was developed based on active teaching-learning methodologies through virtual means to work healthy and sustainable eating with integrated high school adolescents. It consisted of a qualitative study through exploratory research, conducted with 10 adolescents from integrated high school from the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of the State of Espírito Santo (Ifes) – Campus Vitória. The virtual educational program in healthy and sustainable eating lasted 10 days, being carried out through digital platforms consisting of seven asynchronous moments and three synchronous moments. Data were collected from a questionnaire, observations, interviews and reports through the participation forums. The data were treated by the Content Analysis methodology proposed by Laurence Bardin. The use of the educational program in food through virtual means allowed adolescents to reflect on several aspects related to healthy and sustainable eating. The educational program in healthy and sustainable eating through virtual means proved relevant and viable, being possible to be reproduced in other actions of food and nutritional education with adolescents.