Poland's+doctor's+visit

Doctor's visit in Polish school took place in October 2011. The professional medical worker stayed in our school 2 days during which she taugtht and trained all students of 4-6th class. Students were exposed to information and practical advices about vitamines and minerals as well as all distructive substances that influence young human body. According to that visit and training all schools run questionaires on healthy diet routines in students' lifes and homes. Below there is the questionaire as well as the results discussed. 1 **Do you eat breakfast every morning at home?** yes 96% no 4% 2 **What do you take to school as lunch?** 60%-sandwich 32% fruit 72% drink 44% buy sth in school shop (crisps/sweet buns/drink) 48% has lunch in school canteen 4% nothing 3 **Do you eat homemade dinner every day?** yes 60% no 40% 4 **How many courses does your dinner consist of?** 8% only soup 20% only main course 72% both 5 **Do you have green salad with your dinner ?** 44%yes 56% no 6 **Do you eat fruit every day?** yes 84% no 16% 7 **Do you eat supper?** Yes 96% no4% 8 **Do you have snack between meals?** Yes 72% ( sweets/sandwiches/fruit) no 28% 9 **Do you eat dairy products every day (milk/cheese/cottage cheese etc.)** Yes 84% (milk/cheese) no 16% 10 **Do you eat fish at east once a week?** Yes 72% no 28% 11 **What kind of baker’s products do you usually have?** 76% white bread 92% white rolls 68% sweet buns 60% whole grain bread 12 **Does your family eat meals together at one table?** Yes 56% no 44% 13 **Who do you normalny have meals with?** 40% with two parents 26% with one parent 24% alone
 * Eating habits of Sp11 students**

Interpretation of the results Most of our students have breakfasts at home. As lunch sandwiches are the most popular. About half of the respondents have healthy lunch in the school canteen. 1/3 has fruit and 2/3 has a drink. More than half of students has homemade dinner at home. It is not much. Good that 2/3 has two courses (soup and main course) but some have only soup or only main course. Less than a half has greens with their dinner. It is bad news. Optymistic news is that more than 80% has some fruit each day. Almost everybody had supper at home. Almost the same has not healthy snack between meals (crisps, sweets) but some have sandwich or fruit which in good. 1/3 doesn’t have sny snack. Most of children (more than 80%) drink milk every day, but 16% doesn’t. We eat fish too, but not all of us and about once a week, what is too rarely. We eat fat and unhealthy bakery products. We love white rolls, white bread and sweet buns a lot! Even though 60% declared to eat some brown bread too, the most popular were the white and sweet. About half of our students have dinner at one table with the family, 40% with two parents, ¼ with just mum or dad and the other quarter alone.