PMID: 2483624May 1, 1989Paper

[Nutritional hygiene in the prevention of dental decay: thoughts about weight gain in children in elementary schools].

Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunità
L Sebastiani AnnicchiaricoA Simonetti D'Arca

Abstract

Hereafter the results of an investigation carried out in two elementary schools, centred on a health education programme divided into oral hygiene and nutritional hygiene interventions, having the aim above all of assessing the effectiveness of otherwise of such interventions for purposes of checking up on dental caries. Parallel to this main aim we also wished to verify the validity of a working hypothesis which, departing from a strictly odontological aspect, also aimed at pointing out the influence or otherwise of such food education interventions on a more harmonious growth in weight of the children concerned in the programme. This was because most of the principles underlying food education interventions in the strictly auxological field coincide with the basic principles of interventions aimed at the prevention of caries. The programme was prolonged for three school years in two elementary school of Rome coming under the same Local Health Service. This note concerns the second point on the programme, namely study of the body growth pattern. The results may be summarised as follows: At the beginning of the experiment the control group showed a maximum concentration of children in the "normal weight" class (38.9%) and a pro...Continue Reading

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