Assessment for School Students’ Perception Regarding Healthy Nutritional Pattern

Abstract

Healthy nutrition is a cornerstone for students health and wellbeing. Unhealthy nutritional behaviors are core contributors to chronic diseases and health problems. It helps protect against malnutrition. However there are two major types of nutritional problems, inadequate intake of some essential nutrients, and an excessive intake of food or certain type of nutrients. Thus, without proper healthy nutrition, health might be unattainable (Rippe, 2018). Healthy nutritional pattern is the quantities, proportions and variety or combination of different foods, drinks, and nutrients in diets, and the frequency which they are habitually consumed. However a healthy nutritional pattern in school students should include eating breakfast every day while avoiding overnight eating, choosing a diet of moderate in sugars and salts, avoiding large amounts of sweet, soft drinks, fruit flavored colored, chips and candy, practicing proper hygiene at all times, eating in sitting position, avoiding eating during watch the television and practicing daily sports (Sackset al., 2017).