Em busca das concepções do saudável: a fala de gestores e responsáveis técnicos do Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar

Abstract

Among public policies of food and nutrition in Brazil, the universal and free school feeding program (Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar, or PNAE) presents itself as a privileged space for promotion of healthy eating. Thus, the objective of this study was to understand the view of the actors who directly involved in managing and implementing of the Program about healthy eating and promotion of healthy eating. For this interview 22 representatives of the PNAE of 11 municipalities in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The results show that the speech on "healthy eating" of the managers and technical managers (RT) has strong influence of technical knowledge of nutrition, associating although other dimensions such as culture, economy and agriculture. For managers to promote healthy eating beyond issues related to acquisition of knowledge, and raise the aspects related to access to food healthy, to public healthy and income. In the discourse of RT, the promotion of healthy eating is predominantly knowledge related to the transmition technician in order to cause changes habits at the individual level. Both managers and RT illustrate the PNAE as the space that allows the implementation these actions. Finally, we points to the challenge expansion of the concept of eating healthy and promotion of eating healthy discourse and practice of these actors incorporating notions of human right to adequate food, citizenship, among others.