Salt in nutrition of older aged school children

This bachelor thesis, which is focused on the topic of salt consumed by older school age children, it is divided into two parts. The first part is devoted to mapping how much the older children take salt, and the second part focuses directly on food, of which the older children receive salt the most. In the theoretical part I focused on how much salt should contain the recommended daily amount for the children and on the use of salt in the human body. Then I mention what can cause excessive consumption of salt from early childhood. As we read in many publications, children nowadays using salt as excessively as their life. It is from their parents that children bring the most eating habits to their life. In the last part I focused on individual nutrients that children should consume in the right amount. In the Czech Republic, according to the World Health Organization, salt is used two to three times more than recommended daily amount. In the practical part I worked with 30 respondents for five weekends. During this time, their parents recorded their children´s meals, which included breakfast, snacks, lunch, afternoon snacks, and dinners. For the second part of the research, I used a questinainnaire to find out which types of food the children intake the highest amount salt. Afterwards I recorded all the diet data into Nutriservis Professional, which then evaluated the amount of sodium in milligrams. I transferred the calculations into Excel, where I calculated the amount in grams and then converted to the amount of salt per day using the formula * 2,5. Only then, I could evaluate the total amount of salt and the average of all five weekends for each respondent separately. From the resulting values I processed and evaluated, I found that 53.3% of children in the home environment consumed over 5 grams of salt per day over five weekends. This only confirms the fact, that older school-age children consume more salt than the recommended daily amount, as several authors claim in their printed publications