IMPACT OF PUBLIC-SCHOOL FEEDING ON CHILD AND YOUTH EDUCATION IN LOW-INCOME FAMILIES

Abstract

This work aims to promote a reflection on a healthy school education in Brazil, presenting the importance of the nutritionist in the school environment, demonstrating how the National School Feeding Program (PNAE) works in
nutrition and food education (ANE) in public school students to guarantee of the supply of essential nutrients in its educational trajectory, which promote a better quality of life, also reporting the importance of ensuring
food and nutrition security in students from low-income families that contain a more likely to acquire some nutritional deficiency due to the lack of accessibility in nutrient-rich foods that are indispensable in their current cycle and the nutrition professional is the only one qualified to apply this diet in a correct way, which will in fact contribute to psychomotor development and educational learning of these children and adolescents from public schools. Being thus school feeding plays a major role in the lives of our children, not only in its educational trajectory, but also in its future quality of life, because the knowledge gained will be taken to your home raising awareness of the family of the importance of adequate nutrition and its benefits. The methodology used was exploratory qualitative research from 2014 to 2022, excluding the years dates, as well as outside the language of Portuguese. The sources of research are by Google Scholar, Scielo and health-focused magazines.