Abstract:
Nutrition education is a process of acquiring knowledge and know-how in the field
leads to a nutritional approach mainly cognitive whose primary purpose the improvement of
population health by improving eating habits. In Algeria, this type of study is rare that
justifies our commitment to the study.
Our work is a description of the quality of food in Algeria for a population of 1729
healthy school children aged 6 to 12 years three regions of Algeria are: Constantine, Jijel and
Touggourt conducted by a qualitative analysis of data.
The aim of our work is to highlight the differences between observed and
recommended diet (2001) to correct some food errors (quantity, quality and behaviour) by
recommendations of nutrition education as a guide for children to prevent no communicable
diseases related to die .
The results obtained are lower daily caloric intake, an unbalanced distribution of
macronutrients, lower intakes of micronutrients, high consumption of grain products and
starchy, sugary and fatty products (starches, pizza) and a lower consumption of fish and fruit
that unbalances the diet, breakfast is skipped, the morning snack afternoon snack foods are
formed by foods of high energy density. The snacking food type Junk Food practiced all the
time especially watching television and a decrease in the practice of regular physical activity.
It seems that the eating habits of algerian children are no different from those of
industrialized countries, they repeat the same food mistakes, we offer in our work this guide
of nutrition education to develop appropriate prevention and it is necessary in Algeria that
such studies be intensified throughout the national field to better understand the nutritional
status of children and in this sense, the establishment of outreach programs of nutritional
education especially in schools.
