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Projects School milk and School fruit and vegetables in chosen region
BLAFKOVÁ, Monika
The main purpose of this diploma thesis was to evaluate the functioning of the project "School milk and School fruit and vegetables" in the selected region, to find out its possible shortcomings and to propose further direction of this program. For the purposes of this diploma thesis the district of Tábor was selected. As part of the practical part of this diploma thesis, the primary research in this district first carried out through an online questionnaire survey. Subsequently, a survey of parents' opinion was conducted in the selected elementary school through all nine years of schooling. At the end there are mentioned problem areas of the project and suggested concrete recommendations. There is also verified the possibility of using organic food and regional foods in the project, and determined the attitude of schools and parents to the "Dainty" Decree.
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Milk and dairy products in alimentation of primary school children
HONZEJKOVÁ, Sára
Milk and milk products are irreplaceable in the children´s nutrition. Substances which milk contains assist children to the proper growth and development. The most important substances are for example proteins or calcium and therefore it´s necessary to feed children with milk. Children consume milk practically since birth. However, milk consumption may be associated with health problems, such as milk allergy or lactose intolerance. In order to increase the consumption of milk was introduced subsidized program "School Milk", which can be used by all kindergartens, primary and secondary schools in the Czech Republic. The research was based on a quantitative approach. The research tool has become a questionnaire given out to three grades of selected elementary school. Research shows that the selected students consume milk in sufficient amounts, especially cow's milk, which has chosen the 93.8% of respondents. It is primarily milk skimmed and not flavoured. Respondents prefer the most milk itself, then yogurt (56.9%), cheese (55.1%) and butter (50.2%), regardless of age or gender. Among the most popular cheeses include semi-hard cheese, which prefers the 82 respondents from a total of 225. Dislikes are then other fermented products such as sour buttermilk, which is preferred only by 7.6% of respondents, or kefir. Some of the products are completely unknown to the pupils. For example sour milk never tasted more than 71% of respondents. In the health effects and milk production pupils have very limited knowledge; especially pupils in lower grades have very limited knowledge. To name at least one important substance for human health was able to do less than half of the respondents. The most commonly mentioned was calcium and protein, and other substances only sporadically. Also knowledge of milk production has proven to be very tricky. A total of 56.9% of respondents said they do not know any dairy. Percentage using a subsidized program "School Milk" is very low. This program uses only 32.9% of pupils, especially in the lower grades. The research showed that 17.3% of students are overweight or obese, especially the girls in the 5th grade.
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Milk food at school organizations in the Czech Republic and EU
KLUIBER, Petr
Milk and milk nutrition are an important part of the balanced diet for children. Milk contains proteins, which are easy to absorb and which are necessary for growth, development and the renewal of tissues. The fat contained in milk is a rich source of vitamins and carbohydrates, which are an easily available source of energy. What is more, milk also contains a number of minerals, out of which calcium is assigned the greatest importance. Because of the dangers caused by the insufficient intake of calcium, this fact is being taken in account in school catering. The impact of the school catering on the health and further development of children is considered largely important in all the EU coutries. However, the regulations of school catering are different in each country. These regulations range from non-biding governmental recom-mendations on the size of portions or meals offered to the full restrictions of certain products and the national system of standards, which are to be found for example in the Czech republic, where every school canteen has to follow the standards of the so called "basket of consumer goods". Apart from school catering, there are projects which support the consumption of milk and milk products. The most significant of these projects in the Czech republic is the project School milk. It has been implemented in 1996 and it is run by Laktea company, which restarted the supply of milk and milk products to children in cooperation with schools. The School milk project won the support of the Czech goverment in 1999 and, after joining the EU, the project has started develeping fully. The project School milk can be considered successful and desirable as it started with 426 participating school, but there are 3000 schools involved in it today. Similar projects are running in many other EU countries, where each member country can choose for themselves for which products from the EU list they will get the funding. They also have the opportunity to change their projects depending on their needs. Apart form this, the participating countries can support the project with other resources and can provide the milk for full price, partially subsidized or for free. Equallly, they have the right to change to containt of certain milk components, such as to lower the percentage of fat.
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