Browsing by Subject "ravitsemus"
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(2015)Finnish school food has a long tradition in Finland/is part of a long tradition in Finland. School food is a part of the school day of hundreds of thousands of Finnish children and adolescents. The purpose of school food is to improve and maintain the pupil's health, well-being and work efficiency. School lunch has an essential part of the basic function of school; this being teaching. The school's educational atmosphere has an effect on the functioning of school lunch, and this is why it is important to make sure that all staff members work together in this guiding process. The objectives of school food are not fulfilled if the food is not tasty. Objectives: In this case study the pupils' school lunch practices in Auran Yhtenäiskoulu are examined. The contentment of the pupils towards school food has been studied in order to improve school lunch practices. 1) Why do pupils leave food in the school cafeteria? 2) What are the favorite and non-favorite school foods in the menu? 3) What kind of wishes do the pupils have concerning school food? The material of the study was gathered in Auran Yhtenäiskoulu during the year of 2010 and the spring of 2014. 137 pupils took part in the research survey, and 18 pupils participated in testing the so-called empathizing methods. Methods: As a material method, a research survey and qualitative material were used. The survey research was executed with the help of a question form and the essays of the 9th grade pupils concerning their own empathizing opinions towards school food. Results and conclusions: According to the results, the majority of pupils have lunch at the school cafeteria every day. They are mainly happy with the school lunch, but they have wishes concerning the contents of the school lunch menu and its variability.
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(2016)Purpose. The purpose of this study is to examine articles on nutrition and food choices in Kotitalous-magazine and to focus on the changes that have occurred in Finnish peoples food habits during 1952–1982. The end of food rationing in the beginning of the 1950's together with continuous increase in the food assortment created a need for information. The magazine tried to fill this need as the research period went on. The study explores how national nutrition problems; food culture and nutritional education are illustrated in articles published in Kotitalous-magazine. The pivotal message in their content, the changes of perspective in the writing and their frequency is analysed from the data. The research questions are: 1. How do the articles reflect on solutions to national nutritional problems? 2. How are changes in food culture reflected in the articles? 3. How is nutritional counselling and teaching reflected in the articles? Methodology. The data consists of Kotitalous-magazines from 1952 to 1982, which consists of 300 issues containing 1500 articles in total. Off the aforementioned articles 352 concern nutrition and nutritional choices. The qualitative analysis of the material was done by analysing the content of these articles in relation to the relevant theoretical background. Results and conclusions. At the beginning of the researched time period articles in Kotitalous-magazine instructed people how to survive deficiency diseases and the composition of right kinds of nutrition while the focus shifted more towards the preventing of new public health issues like cardiovascular diseases as the research period went on. The intake of essential nutrients, fats and sugars played a major role in the magazine articles. The change in food culture was presented in the articles as the amount and assortment of foods available increased more and more. That was when the food culture began to diversify and took on influence from for example abroad. Dietary recommendations and nutrition counselling strived to educate consumers to consume healthy food, increase vegetable intake and decrease the amount of sugars and fats consumed.
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