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Evaluation of food habits at preschool-age children
MADEJOVÁ, Nina
Presented bachelor work set the target to review and evaluate the eating habits of children with preschool age. Research was carried out in chosen nursery school MŠ Palackého in years 2011/2012 and 2012/2013. Particularly 42 children (22 boys and 20 girls) were concerned in this survey. Age category was from 5 to 6 years. Generally the research was divided in three main parts. First part of bachelor work was based on snack and lunch evaluation from the point of view of macronutrients and micronutrients content followed by comparison with standards of particular age category. Next part of research includes the individual children Body Mass Index (BMI) evaluation taken at the beginning and at the end of the research together with the setting of percentile. Third part contains the study of eating habits outside the school based on questionnaire analysis. The result show that the energy intake from school meals did not exceed the 50% of boys recommended daily allowance and 55% of girls recommended daily allowance. Fat intake wasn?t within the norms either. Recommended daily allowance was fulfilled at 39% in case boys? case and 43% in girls? case. Carbohydrate was below the recommended average in case of boys but at the same time it reached the recommended level in girls? case. Contrarily the level of proteins was fulfilled highly above recommended norms of more than 60%. Level of calcium was also unsatisfying and it only reached the level of 24,5% of daily recommended level. Level of Iron (Fe) and Riboflavin (B2) was normative.

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