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Comparison between Slovenian and Croatian Students in their Knowledge about Healthy Food and their Eating Habits

Nowadays great importance is laid on healthy food due to great number of overweighed children and adolescent and diseases caused by being obesity (Conker & Tishler, 1992 ; Robbins, Powers, Burgess, 2005 ; Pokorn, 2005 ; Matković, Knjaz, Cigrovski, 2006 ; Zupančič, Hoyer, 2006). Primary school teachers and physical education teachers play a big role in the pupils lives. Therefore it is vital to find out what their eating habits are and what they know about healthy food. For the research purpose two questionnaires were used. Results were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, discriminant analyse and T-test for independent samples. The results show that students from Slovenia have better eating habits while students from Croatia have better knowledge about healthy food. There should be more education about healthy food in primary and secondary schools and also at higher education. It can’ t be expected that teachers will teach children about the healthy way of life and proper eating habits, if they do not posses enough knowledge themselves. Nowadays healthy food and proper lifestyle are very important because of peoples health, their quality of life and expected longer lifetime. Another reason for educating primary school teacher and physical education teacher about healthy food and proper eating habits is that there are too many inappropriate commercials which advertise unhealthy food, in particular sweets and fast food.

knowledge ; students ; nutrition ; eating habits ; food

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