Nutritional education as an element improving nutritional behavior and selected anthropometric parameters in the group of children aged 12 years

Material and methods. The study was conducted among 160 children aged 12 years from Koszalin. Children were divided into 2 groups: a group subjected to nutritional education and a group not subjected to such a program. The research was carried out twice: before the educational program was started and 6 months after its completion. The tool was the author’s questionnaire, which asked about the frequency of consumption of food products, the frequency of meals consumed during the day, the frequency of consumption of selected beverages, and the habit of snacking. In addition, the height and weight of children were measured and the Cole index was calculated, and then on this basis the nutritional status of the children was determined.