Browsing by Subject "ravitsemuskasvatus"
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(2012)Aims. Generous supply of food has made it difficult to perform everyday food choices. There are heterogeneous food trends which may define what to eat and how the public discussion about food and nutrition is comprised. Media, parents and peers are major influences on adolescents' food choices. The taste and the familiarity of food are emphasized over healthiness of or information about food when selecting food. The aim of this study is to find out how the complexity of choosing food is manifested in perceptions of adolescent and how knowledge on nutrition is transformed into action in adolescent's lives. Furthermore, the effects of nutrition education on the quality of knowledge and action are reflected. The questions of this study are: 1. What kind of perceptions do adolescents have on food trends? 2. How is the importance of food selection related issues structured in adolescent's perceptions? 3. How the information and education on nutrition are combined in adolescent's perceptions? Methods. The qualitative data was collected by focus-group interviews from the students of optional home economics courses (N=24) in a school at Pirkanmaa, on May 2012. The data was analyzed with a qualitative method called qualitative content analysis. Results and conclusions. Teenagers were somewhat annoyed by food trends and worried about how these may increase incidences of anorexia nervosa. They were also hoping more criticism towards media by nutrition education. On the other hand, examples, such as adults' weight loss on low-carbohydrate diet effected positively on adolescent's perceptions of food trends. Adolescents are puzzled by the contradiction between eating habits they are taught and eating habits their parents follow. Adolescents' food choice was determined by the availability of food such as place to eat, the needs of food such as hunger/craving and the nutrition knowledge that is gained from parents, among others. Food choices are compromises between the three factors above. For example adolescents choose healthier foods at home than in restaurants, feel guilty after eating delicacies and appreciate homemade food; nutrition knowledge changes the eating behaviors of adolescents both physically, mentally and socially.
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(2017)Comprehensive school pupils in Finland have a right to healthy and free school meals. The purpose of the school meals is to teach the pupils healthy ways of living, good eating habits, and to familiarize them with Finnish culture. The basis of this study lies in the hypothesis that, as no precise standards are given in the curriculum, the attitudes teachers have about nutrition education might affect the weight school meals are given in everyday life. The aim of this thesis is to research the outlooks that students in teacher education have towards school meals and its significance for students. The material for the thesis was collected with a web form, to which 83 responses were received in total. The material was analysed utilizing theory-based content analysis, at first simplifying received responses, and later assigning them to different categories. According to the research teachers think that schools meals are important for students, and the significance of school meals can be addressed from four viewpoints: 1) as an enhancer of national health, 2) as a conveyor of social and cultural information, 3) as a fortifier of self-efficacy and autonomy, 4) as value education. In the future it would be important to find out how all aspects of nutrition education could be fulfilled during school meals. At the moment is seems that health improvement and social skills are over-emphasized in nutrition education. These research findings aren't to be generalised, as qualitative analysis of a small group always brings individualism to the results. The results can, however, be seen as guidelines, they can serve as grounds for future research, and provoke conversation.
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(2017)Previous studies have not focused on milk's meaning and role in study books. The aim of this research is to find out in which ways study milk is presented in environmental studies' study books and what kinds of meanings are related to milk and dairy products. The research also aims to find out how these milk-related meanings have changed between years 1969–2016 and how they are being weighted. It is also studied if Finns are driven to consume milk and dairy products and why milk is so meaningful for most of the Finns. This research aims as well to find out what kind of potential consequences textbooks have on child's ideas and attitudes towards milk and dairy products. The research was carried out by studying environmental studies' textbooks made by publishing house Otava published between years 1969–2016. Milk-related entities were collected from textbooks. By using the collected material different milk-related categories were formed. The data was analyzed by using content analysis. This research showed that milk was presented in four different categories in textbooks. These categories were Milk as nutrition for young, Milk as means of earning one's living, Milk as health's contributor and Miscellaneous. The bias and the presence of these categories varies between and through the years and classes. The present critical view on milk could not been seen in textbooks.
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(2015)Aims. Young people's consumption of vegetables has been studied in the past, but the identification of vegetables have a small amount information. This study aims to combine these two. The aim of this study is to determine how well the 7th graders identify the vegetables. In this study vegetables doesn't mean fruits, berries and mushrooms. Purpose of the study is to find out what affects youngsters vegetables identification. In addition, the objective of the study is to find out how often young people eat vegetables, and what factors affect their consumption of vegetables. Methods. The data was collected from elementary 7. graders in Helsinki. The total number of respondents was 33, of which 20 were girls and boys were 13. The study was conducted in two parts. The first part of the study the respondents' identification vegetables. They had to rename 20 plants. In the second part the study there were individual interviews. Interviews were half structured interviews. Themes of the interview had been prepared from the theoretical framework of study. The interviews were transcribed. After that the analysis was continued by content analysis, classification and themes. The theoretical framework's key words were food choice, vegetables, health effects, and nutrition education. Results and conclusions. The study found that young people identify the vegetables very well. The most challenging was to identify beetroot, parsnips and fennel. The identification of affected vegetables familiarity, how often the respondent had eaten the plant, as well as see it fresh. 81% of the respondents ate daily vegetables. They ate vegetables at the most at home and at the school. The most welcome vegetables were cucumber and tomato. They were also the most served vegetables at home. 70% of respondents replied that they have served vegetables on the every meal at home. Based on the results it can be concluded that the main contributor to both young vegetables in identifying and the consumption, operates the home. The school gets a good second place. Other factors which affecting was vegetables taste, appearance and texture.
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(2015)This study was made to find out how the teacher students' comprehend the role of the teacher during the school meals service. It was believed that there was a lack of earlier studies concerning the matter. Although the topic is valuable and under the lens of the ongoing discussion about health and welfare of the nation. The earlier study has come to show that teacher's role in the school meal service is essential. The motive for this study is to recognize the opinion of the teacher students' over this matter. This study was conducted to acknowledge the need to understand current comprehension in the field. The study will serve a future study in the means to illustrate the prevalent situation. The study is qualitative, with parts fashioned by the quantitative research, such as frequency analysis. The data was collected using a static web query. 83 candidates answered and all the material were analyzed. The research material got read, and categorized in groups. The groups were formed by their qualities to model a role of a teacher. Content analysis was applied to set the types, which depicted a role the best. The practice of frequency analysis was used in this study to count how many times the roles were mentioned in the whole sample. It shed a new light to the study in the form of understanding the essence of a teacher during the school meals service. The research result was that the teacher students mentioned four roles for the teacher during the school meals service. The roles are in order based on the commonness of the role; The teacher as a nutrition educator, The teacher as an example, The teacher as a good manners' and etiquette teacher and The teacher as a supervisor and also fifth theme was Other aspects of School meals service, such as not having a role at all. The other part of the study was to focus on the teacher's role's activeness and social side and educative view. It got studied with a result of teacher being active, sociable and educative, viewed by the teacher students. Exploring the views of the teacher students' also means, that the answers are subjective. Therefore it is harder to make an epitome general concept of the matter.
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