Comenius Programme – “Healthy Children – Promising Generations”

1. General information

The survey was conducted in the second term of the school year 2012/2013.

179 children from classes Ib ,IIa, IIb, IIId, IVd, Vd, VIa took part in this survey.

It consisted of 12 questions, which allowed the interviewees to give one or a few

answers.

2. Data

Question Class 1b 2a 2b 3d 4b 5d 6a total

1. Do you eat a lot of food and vegetables?

Yes 24 19 24 15 20 18 12 132

No 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 3

Sometimes 3 8 5 6 4 7 10 43

2. Which of the following products are in your opinion the most unhealthy?

Sweets 18 18 7 13 2 3 4 65

Crisps 8 19 20 18 2 7 2 76

Fast-Food 17 24 22 15 17 19 18 132

White bread 0 1 0 2 3 1 0 7

3. How many meals do you eat a day?

One 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

Two 1 0 1 2 0 0 2 6

Three 12 11 6 11 10 19 16 85

Four and more 13 16 23 8 14 6 6 86

4. Do you practise sport apart from eating healthy food?

Yes 23 18 25 11 18 23 21 139

No 1 1 1 0 2 1 0 6

Sometimes 3 7 3 10 4 1 3 31

5. Do you eat wholemeal bread instead of the products from the white flour?

Yes 7 9 12 2 8 8 6 52

No 6 4 3 2 0 3 2 20

Sometimes 14 13 14 17 16 14 16 104

6. How often do you drink fizzy drinks?

I don’t drink them at all 15 9 12 4 3 1 10 54

Once a week 8 10 14 13 17 19 10 91 Two, three or more Times a week

4 4 2 3 3 4 3 23

Everyday 0 4 1 1 1 1 1 9

7. How often during the day should we eat?

When we are hungry 9 9 2 4 0 5 0 29

4-5 times a day 11 16 15 10 19 11 5 87

3 meals a day 6 3 11 5 4 9 18 56

I don’t know 1 1 1 2 1 0 1 7

8. How is your breakfast like?

I sometimes eat breakfast.

4 3 2 6 6 1 2 24

I don’t eat breakfast 1 0 1 0 0 0 3 5

It’s healthy and tasty 22 23 26 15 18 24 19 147

9. Why the majority of vegetables and fruit should be eaten raw?

Raw fruit and vegetables contain the most vitamins

25 24 26 15 22 22 24 158

Raw are the most tasty 4 1 0 1 1 3 0 10

I don’t know 0 2 3 5 1 0 0 11

10. When should we eat the last meal of the day?

Just before going to bed 12 3 5 3 5 2 0 30

Two hours before going to bed

11 24 22 18 19 21 23 138

We shouldn’t eat supper at all

0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1

We should eat when we want to

4 1 2 0 0 0 0 7

11. What kind of rest is the most beneficial for your health after the school work?

Relaxing while playing computer games

1 1 1 0 1 3 2 9

A nap 17 6 10 4 1 4 0 42

Physical exercises in the fresh air

22 22 22 15 20 17 20 138

Meetings with friends 11 2 10 2 2 8 2 37

I don’t know 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

12. What is the main role of a healthy diet?

It provides us with healthy ingredients

24 21 21 19 24 25 23 157

It gives us a lot of pleasure

4 4 5 0 0 0 0 13

I don’t know 1 2 3 2 0 0 1 9

3.The analysis of the results.

Ouestion No 1.

132 pupils, which is the majority , claim that they eat a lot of fruit and vegetables.

Do you eat a lot of food and vegetables?

Yes

No

Sometimes

Question No 2.

The most unhealthy products according to the children are fast-food, and then crisps and sweets.

Question No 3.

The pupils eat three or four and more meals a day.

Question No 4.

Do you practise sport apart from eating healthy food?

The majority of children practise sport regularly and the rest is physically active at least sometimes.

0

50

100

150

Sweets CrispsFast-Food

Whitebread

Which of the following products are in your opinion the most unhealthy?

How many meals do you eat a day?

One

Two

Three

Four ene more

Question No 5.

Do you eat wholemeal bread instead of the products from the white flour ?

30% of the interviewees eat wholemeal products systematically, and 60% - sometimes.

Question No 6.

5% of the interviewees drink sweet fizzy drinks every day, 30% don’t drink such drinks at all, 51%

drink them only once a week.

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Yes

No

Sometimes

0%

20%

40%

60%

I don’t drink them at all Once a week

Two, three ormore times a

week

Everyday

How often do you drink fizzy drinks?

Question No 7.

49% of the students claim that we should eat meals 4-5 times a day, 31% of the interviewees claim

that 3 meals a day are enough. 16 % of the kids claim that we should eat when we are hungry, and

4% couldn’t answer this question.

Question No 8.

How is your breakfast like?

82% of the interviewees is happy about their morning meals. They find them tasty and healthy.

Unfortunately, there are 5 students among the interviewees who don’t eat breakfast at all and 24

kids eat it only sometimes.

How often during the day should we eat?

When we are hungry

4-5 times a day

3 meals a day

I don’t know

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

I sometimes eatbreakfast

I don’t eat breakfast

It’s healthy and tasty

Question No 9.

88% of the interviewees claim that fruit and vegetables should be eaten raw, because they contain

the most vitamins. 5,5% of the students say that they are the most tasty. The same amount of the

interviewees couldn’t answer this question.

Question No 10.

When should we eat the last meal of the day?

Why the majority of vegetables and fruit should be eaten raw?

Raw fruit and vegetablescontain the mostvitamins

Raw are the most tasty

I don’t know

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

We should eat when wewant to

We shouldn’t eat supper at all

Two hours before going tobed.

Just before going to bed

Question No 11.

What kind of rest is the most beneficial for your health after the school work?

The most beneficial for health is, according to the kids, the physical exercise in the fresh air.

Question No 12.

What is the main role of a healthy diet?

88% of the pupils claim that the most important role of eating is providing the essential nutritious

ingredients. 8% believe that eating meals is mainly for pleasure. 4% of the pupils couldn’t show the

most important function of eating healthy food.

4.CONCLUSIONS

The students from our school proved that their knowledge about the healthy food is

satisfactory. However, the knowledge connected with this topic should be extended to make the

children realise how important is the process of healthy eating, help them form the proper eating

habits and inculcate a benefitial healthy lifestyle.

0 50 100 150

I don’t know

Meetings with friends

Physical exercises in thefresh air

A nap

Relaxing while playingcomputer games