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The eating habits of younger and older the Romany school children in socially excluded localities in the city of Ceske Budejovice
STUDNIČKOVÁ, Marika
Eating habits and general advice for healthy food are recently discussed topic, but the eating habits of Roma children are not from a large part presented yet. Diet and way of preparing food has an influence to many factors, especially the social, cultural and economic. The diet has specifics that are typical for many nationalities, also for ethnicity and family.The topic of this thesis is the "Eating habits of the Roma children at younger and older school age in socially excluded localities in the České Budějovice". The aim of this thesis was to find out the dietary habits of Roma children at younger and older school age in socially excluded localities in the České Budějovice.For the practical part of this thesis, was chosen the strategy of quantitative research, the questioning method, which was implemented by the method questionnaire. Was determined by research question - What are the eating habits and knowledge about the healthy nutrition of the Roma children in socially excluded localities? Three hypotheses were formulated. The graphic evaluation of this thesis showed us that the Roma children of my study do not eat according to the rules and principles the healthy diet. In their diet there are many risk factors that may have effect to their health.
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Options for preventing obesity of children 12 to 15 years
STUDNIČKOVÁ, Marika
At present, obesity ranks as one of the most frequent metabolic diseases caused by multiple factors. According to epidemiologic surveys, prevalence is on the increase, in particular in developed countries. It is also widely known that obesity in child age predetermines obesity in adulthood, when it is accompanied with increased risk of cardiac and metabolic complications. The present bachelor thesis engages in possibilities of prevention of obesity for children from 12 to 15 years of age. The theoretical part summarizes the most significant findings that relate to the aforesaid problems. The practical part focuses on the research conducted in issues of obesity. The authoress examines prevalence of obesity, eating habits of pupils or students, ways of spending free time and physical activities of children. The research applied a quantitative method. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire distributed to elementary school pupils, in the age category of 12 - 15 years, within the range of 7th to 9th elementary school years. The main objective of the thesis was to ascertain how obesity affects a child?s life. A partial objective consisted in mapping the eating habits of children belonging to the older school age, and discovering to what extent physical activity acts on a child?s life. These objectives have been met. From the analysed sample of respondents, their BMIs were calculated and recorded in a percentile graph. The results revealed that 7.2 respondents suffer from obesity and 16.8 % children are overweight. Most of the children from the analysed sample have built up bad eating habits. Almost one third of the respondents attends no sports clubs and spends doing physical activities fewer than two hours per week.
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