Saúde humana: os benefícios da alimentação à base de produtos ecológicos

Abstract

The pursuit for improved quality of life can be perceived by the increased consumption of healthy products, ecological, without the addition of chemical fertilizers, showing that consumers are increasingly aware of the need to take care of their health through diet. Especially because today it is already widely known that the lack of nutrients due to improper diet implies several cases of serious chronic diseases, especially in children. The supply of green products that have no residual toxins of pesticides has become essential and its consumption should be a priority and balanced, because they bring many benefits to health and quality of life, not putting the consumer at risk. But knowledge of the population about all the benefits of a healthy balanced diet is still immature, so the school becomes the center of such information. At school various activities on the theme food, included in the different subjects, making students realize the importance of eating properly, getting healthy lifestyles can be applied. The study aimed to know the reality of a rural school students and their families (rural community), with regard to their daily diet, the creation of an educational brochure about the importance of organic food to be used as an environmental education tool in schools and in the community. This study provided the perception that despite surveyed people live in rural areas they have some knowledge about what is healthy food and what is its purpose. This paper with the theme "Healthy Eating" aimed to develop as a tool for environmental education, which allowed successful implementation of the same, showing the reference that it can be applied by any school subject, as a strategy to stimulate the consumption of healthy food as a way to improve the quality of life since childhood.