Public policies and their intervention in the nutritional health

  • Graziella Vanessa Bettão CESUMAR
  • Maria Angélica Vera Lopez CESUMAR
  • Maria de Lourdes Brandão Assis Navarro CESUMAR

Abstract

Nutritional Science is of great importance as a theorical support to public policies directed to the promotion of infantile nutritional health, since food habits are established in the first years of aeg and, consequently, tend to be fossilized in adult life. Therefore, the creation of programs that aim at infantile nutritional health is of paramount importance especially in a country like Brazil marked for severe social inadequalities. The present Brazilian government has been developing public policies directed to nutritional health of the poor population. projects such as "Health Child" - Food Ten", and "Kitchen Brazil - Intelligent Food", both resultant from actions aimed at alimentary education and the nutritional program "Zero Hunger", are examples of public policies committed to the promotion of nutritional health. Therefore, this paper has the objective of informing the reader about the existing discussions and programs that have been carried out and promoted in the national and international arena, which tend to close the gap between the nutrition science and social reality.

Author Biographies

Graziella Vanessa Bettão, CESUMAR
Acadêmica do Curso de Nutrição do Centro Universitário de Maringá - CESUMAR.
Maria Angélica Vera Lopez, CESUMAR
Acadêmica do Curso de Nutrição do Centro Universitário de Maringá - CESUMAR.
Maria de Lourdes Brandão Assis Navarro, CESUMAR
Acadêmica do Curso de Nutrição do Centro Universitário de Maringá - CESUMAR.
Published
2007-07-27
Section
Artigos Originais