The Conscious Feeding Center dedicates one meeting a month to the little ones with the Sanamerenda. A moment designed to spend a few hours of play and chat, accompanied by healthy food.
Believing that the best way to educate the little ones to a healthy and correct diet is to eat while playing, the Sanamerenda is an opportunity to provide children with the tools to learn about foods and the various food groups, the seasonality of fruit and vegetables, as well as their importance in a balanced diet, the fundamental role played by physical activity and the consumption of water to the detriment of that of carbonated and / or sugary drinks. They will also be guided in the choice of the healthiest foods, favoring natural and homemade foods, in order to become small conscious consumers and producers.
Hence the proposal for a food education project in schools that arises precisely from the observation of an increasing number of overweight or obese children. Statistical data also show how childhood obesity, particularly in Western countries, is a growing problem of considerable health and social importance. In particular, in the Campania region, one in two children (49%) is overweight or obese. The causes of this real "epidemic" of obesity are to be found above all in incorrect eating habits and in a sedentary lifestyle. Those who, like us, try to educate children about food know that the real problem is to educate parents. So why not do the reverse? That is, asking children to become educators?
For this purpose, the workshops are organized in such a way as to provide students with the tools for putting into practice the principles of a healthy and correct diet to be passed on to their parents, who are responsible for their nutrition. In the conscious nutrition education project, children and adolescents are seen as educators, as agents of change, not only towards adults, but also towards their peers. From a methodological point of view, all the laboratories favor peer education practices, also judged by the scientific literature as one of the most effective training strategies for activating the passage of knowledge and experiences among children and adolescents, to develop positive ways of doing increase responsibility for one's own health and the need to protect it.
