title: [Changes on dietary habits of the late-breakfast in a school population].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The establishment of healthy eating habits in children at school and in family life is very important for preventing obesity in children.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To know the habits of late-breakfast in a scholar population, the prevalence of overweight and obesity, and establish healthy dietary habits through the late-breakfast.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective interventional study was performed in a school group. Children from 10 to 13 years-old were included. The study had three phases: pre-intervention (anthropometric assessment and questionnaire of late-breakfast frequency), intervention (parents and teachers received information about "the importance of proper nutrition in school" focused on the transcendence of a healthy and balanced diet that includes a suitable late-breakfast every day at school, and the students received the late-breakfast during two weeks that included milk, fruit and a traditional sandwich), and post-intervention (questionnaire of late-breakfast frequency).
  
  
  RESULTS
  Frequency of overweight was 10.6% and obesity 2.6%. After the intervention the proportion of children who had late-breakfast increased by 9.2%, and the kind of food which they ate changed.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Dietary habits can be modified in a scholar population with an easy nutritional intervention.
authors: Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de los Alimentos, Universidad de León, León, España. calleja.alicia@gmail.com
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Calleja Fernández
authors: C
authors: C
authors: Muñoz Weigand
authors: Ma D
authors: MD
authors: Ballesteros Pomar
authors: A
authors: A
authors: Vidal Casariego
authors: J J
authors: JJ
authors: López Gómez
authors: I
authors: I
authors: Cano Rodríguez
authors: Ma T
authors: MT
authors: García Arias
authors: Ma C
authors: MC
authors: García Fernández
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D015992:Body Mass Index; D002648:Child; D004032:Diet; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000517:prevention & control; D050177:Overweight / Q000517:prevention & control; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012574:Schools; D013334:Students; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires