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ABOUT ME
Hello!

My name is Ralitza Yordanova.

I’m a manager in advertising agency but I study "ICT in the elementary school" – it’s a master class at the University of Sofia.

I’m thinking that the teaching children is very humenly and hobility job.

I decided to join Anika and to work with her on the project about healthy nutrition because this theme is actually in all world.

THE PROJECT IS
Healthy nutrition of children in primary school

I would like to know what children in the elementary school want to healthy food. If they are eating the same food,they will a problem with overweight in the future. I'm thinking may be interesting to find what are the differences between results in Germany (Eichstaett) and Bulgaria (Sofia).

THE HYPOTHESIS
A lot of children in primary school age do not eat regularly. The nutrition in Germany and Bulgaria differs – German kids have more balanced diet than Bulgarian children.

OBJECTIVES OF THE RESEARCH
Our team would like to know if the children in primary school eat healthy food, what do they know about nutrition and what are the ways this subject to go into the schools – through the Curriculum, by involving the teachers or through projects.

Our aim is to compare the results in Germany (Eichstätt) and Bulgaria (Sofia) and to find the similarities and the differences.

TASKS

 * To see whether the children eat regularly�and balanced food.


 * To see whether they know what is healthy nutrition.


 * To compare the Bulgarian and the German data.

METHODOLOGY
Anika Düker made a questionnaire, which the team discussed and added a few points. Questionnaire with 13 questions about the way the child eats and knowledge about healthy nutrition as well: eat most often in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon and in the evening and the drinks they have as well.
 * 8 closed questions with 3, 4 or 5 options for an answer;
 * 5 open questions - the children are required to describe the food they

The questionnaire was given in different schools in Sofia, Bulgaria and Eichstätt, Germany in one and the same time – in the end of January.

Totally 133 pupils in 4th grade took part in it (they were between 9 and 11 years of age). 72 of them are from Bulgaria and 61 from Germany.

CRITERIA

 * Basic principles for the healthy nutrition
 * Quality of the eaten food


 * Children’s knowledge about healthy nutrition

ANALYSIS
regularly and do not skip a meal. The difference in the results from the children interviewed in Bulgaria and Germany is minimal (2 - 5%).
 * Do you eat regular interval? - Almost all interviewed children eat

don’t skip their breakfast, no matter whether it is in school, during the weekend or the holiday. The results show that the children born on Bulgaria have breakfast more regularly the their German peers.
 * Do you have breakfast every day? - The children from the two countries

questionnaire sometimes or often vary their food during the day. Even with a very small difference the German children eat more various food in comparison with the Bulgarian ones.
 * Do you eat different food each day? - All the children who filled in the

often or always are present in the menu of Bulgarian children. Their German peers also eat fruit and vegetables, but their results are lower.
 * How often do you eat fresh food and vegetables? - Fruit and vegetables most

According to the criteria for healthy breakfast it turns out that German children eat better food than the Bulgarian.
 * What do you eat for breakfast? - The children have comparatively healthy breakfast.


 * What do you eat for lunch? - Both groups eat healthy and not so healthy food.But Bulgarian children eat healthier than their German peers.


 * What do you eat for dinner? - Bulgarian children have healthier dinner that the German ones because they pointed warm food and included a salad in their menu.


 * What do you snack? - It is good that most of the children prefer fruit but they eat mainly sweet and salty products and they do not have enough yoghurt.


 * What do you drink? - The two groups drink mainly water, juice and soft drinks and do not drink enough milk or tea. Together with this the dangerous soft drinks are present in a very high degree in the menu of the Bulgarian children.


 * What do you learn something about healthy nutrition at school? - The Bulgarian children think they receive enough knowledge about the healthy nutrition in school. The German kids have the opinion that not enough attention is paid on this topic.


 * Do you talk with your parents on this topic? - As a whole the interviewed groups do not discuss this topic with their parents. But the Bulgarian kids talk about healthy nutrition with their parents more often than their German peers.


 * Do you have the chance to choose your food? - The two interviewed take part in the choice of food at home. The parents of the Bulgarian children have in mind their children’s opinion in comparison with their peers’ parents in Germany.


 * Do you think your nutrition is healthy? - In Bulgaria the children in their bigger part do not know whether they eat healthy food. But in Germany it is the opposite – the children are sure that they eat healthy food.

CONCLUSIONS

 * Bulgarian and German kids eat various food. The fruit and vegetables are present in the menu of the two interviewed groups. But if the Bulgarian children are left on their own choice, they chose mainly paste products, salty/sweet products, fast food and soft drinks.


 * For the lunch and the dinner - Bulgarian children eat a little bit more healthy food in comparison with their German peers. But the German children apparently have better behaviour in connection with food as a difference with the Bulgarian.


 * Bulgarian children think that they receive enough information on this topic at school and they discuss it with their parents, but they cannot apply their knowledge. As a difference their German peers think that the way they eat is healthy.

'''The so made conclusions prove our hypothesis, because healthy nutrition doesn’t mean to have 1-2 healthy meals a           day. It means to have right attitude to the food and constantly to have balanced menu.'''

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