title: [School: a place for studying and eating].
abstract: This study seeks to discuss the significance of school nutrition expressed by students in public schools from the state of Bahia, Brazil. The objective is to understand the symbolic aspects associated with school nutrition. The results of a survey into the significance of nutrition offered by the Brazilian School Nutrition Program (PNAE) expressed by students from six public schools in municipalities in the state of Bahia, Brazil, are presented. A qualitative approach to understand nutrition at school and notions about healthy food by analyzing oral and written narratives of adolescents is used. The reports point to opposing stances between food in the home and food outside the home. What is customary can appear strange depending on the time and place. In this sense, they do not make an association between healthy food and PNAE. The food culture requires students to eat food on two occasions: breakfast and lunch (or dinner). These are aspects that are distinct, however they must be combined in school, because for these social actors, studying and eating are necessities that complement each other.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Nutrição, Escola de Nutrição, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, BA, 40110-150. carmofreitas@uol.com.br
authors.forename: Maria do Carmo Soares
authors.initials: Mdo C
authors.lastname: de Freitas
authors.forename: Maria Cecília de Souza
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Minayo
authors.forename: Lilian Barbosa
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Ramos
authors.forename: Gardênia Vieira
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Fontes
authors.forename: Ligia Amparo
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.forename: Elizeu Clementino
authors.initials: EC
authors.lastname: de Souza
authors.forename: Anderson Carvalho
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: dos Santos
authors.forename: Sara Emanuela
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Mota
authors.forename: Janaina Braga
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: de Paiva
authors.forename: Tânia Mara
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Bernardelli
authors.forename: Franklin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Demétrio
authors.forename: Isadora
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Menezes
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001290:Attitude; D002648:Child; D063427:Food Quality; D005522:Food Services; D006801:Humans; D012574:Schools