Eating habits related to cancer prevention among elementary school pupils in the Czech Republic

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Eating habits related to cancer prevention among elementary school pupils in the Czech Republic

Original language description

The cancer load of the Czech population ranks among the highest worldwide. The consensus among scientists in in the field of cancer control is that diet plays an important but not fully understood role in modifying cancer risk and that certain changes in the diet could have a beneficial impact on cancer occurrence. This paper aims current eating habits of elementary school pupils from selected schools in Brno (Czech Republic), and on the base of comparison with nutritional recommendations we attempted to answer the question whether the elementary school pupils have healthy diet. The research has been carried out in selected elementary schools in Brno, Czech Republic. It involves pupils aged 11-15, both boys and girls. Information have been obtained by questionnaire method. 355 completed questionnaire forms have been submitted back and further processed in this research. Although obesity does not appear to be as strong an independent risk factor for cancer as other factors, some cancers such as kidney, endometrium, and ovary cancers are related to obesity. Results show that rather high percentage of 355 respondents has an ideal weight in respect to their height – 85.1%. More than one third of pupils answered that they daily consume fresh fruit, but most of them eat fresh vegetable only 1-3 times per week...Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption is an important health behaviour. Parental influence s on children´s fruit and vegetables consumption are poorly understood. Children keep the principles of healthy nutrition only occasionally. As for food allergy, 13.5% of children reported an allergy occurrence, most frequent allergy concerned milk and nuts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

C - Chapter in a specialist book

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name

Cancer, disease of civilization

ISBN

9788365598424

Number of pages of the result

22

Pages from-to

7-28

Number of pages of the book

120

Publisher name

Wydawnictwo Naukowe TYGIEL sp. z o.o.

Place of publication

Lublin

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