title: Perception of adolescents on healthy eating.
abstract: The objective in this article is to analyze how adolescents at a school in the interior of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil, perceive healthy eating. A descriptive and exploratory study was undertaken, based on the qualitative method. Forty adolescents between 10 and 14 years of age were investigated, using a semistructured interview. The interviews were analyzed using the software Alceste, which evidenced two thematic axes: Eating practices, divided in two classes (routine eating diary and Eating at weekends); and Education practices, consisting of four classes (Factors interfering in and facilitating the maintenance of healthy eating, Role of the school in the education process for healthy eating, Knowledge on healthy eating, The family and the promotion of healthy eating). Although the interviewed adolescents are familiar with healthy eating, they do not always put it in practice, due to the multiple factors that interfere in their preferred diet. The school and the family play a fundamental role in encouraging healthy eating. The school needs to accomplish eating education practices that encourage the consumption of locally produced foods.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brasil, dayannecaroline773@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Dayanne Caroline de Assis
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: UFPE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Iracema da Silva
authors.initials: Ida S
authors.lastname: Frazão
authors.affiliation: UFPE, Brasil.
authors.forename: Mônica Maria
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Osório
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brasil, dayannecaroline773@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Maria Gorete Lucena de
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Vasconcelos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D004032:Diet; D000072001:Diet, Healthy; D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012574:Schools