Plataforma MEALHerramienta innovadora para enseñar educación nutricional a maestros y nutricionistas
- Alejandro Domínguez Rodríguez
- Elia. Oliver
- Ausiàs Cebolla Martí
- Sussan Albertini
- Louis Ferrini
- Enrique de la Cruz Martínez
- Ana González Segura
- Rosa María Baños Rivera
ISSN: 1909-8391
Year of publication: 2015
Issue Title: Ciberpsicología
Volume: 10
Issue: 2
Pages: 68-82
Type: Article
More publications in: Tesis psicológica: Revista de la Facultad de Psicología
Abstract
Consumption of unhealthy foods by children is now considered a global problem to the extent that the health of infants is directly related to diet, but most have focused only on the transmission of nutritional information. This article will describe the MEAL platform that has been created to help teachers and nutritionists to teach nutritional education to children between 9 and 12 years of age. MEAL consists of 3 modules with basic concepts related to nutrition education, but also it contains information related to the change of eating habits and establishing healthy patterns. This platform also has two educational video games aimed at children. By the way it is designed MEAL platform, and to be based on information and communications technology can be a very useful tool and effective for teachers and dietitians in order to teach children nutrition education.