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• TITLE: Dietary Knowledge, Behaviours and Attitudes of Students of Public School in a Northeastern City in Brazil

  AUTHORS: Marize Melo dos Santos, Adriana de Azevedo Paiva, José Ivo dos Santos Pedrosa, Rosângela Lopes Viana

  KEYWORDS: Intervention Studies, Dietary Behaviours, Attitude, Students

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.6 No.11, May 29, 2014

  ABSTRACT: This quasi-experimental intervention was conducted with 10- to 14-year-old students enrolled in public schools in Teresina, Brazil, to evaluate the effects of a nutritional education program on the students’ knowledge, behaviour and attitudes towards nutrition. The dietary attitudes were evaluated in terms of food tastes/preferences and food behaviours. The participants in the study included 126 students from four schools. Differences between before and after the intervention were found regarding knowledge about the “food pyramid”, “healthy eating” and “nutrients” (p