Attitudes of secondary school students to alternative ways of diets at Tabor

TITLE: Attitudes of secondary school students to alternative ways of diets at Tabor AUTHOR: Bc. Jana Polčáková DEPARTMENT: Department of education and social education, department of health education SUPERVISOR: PaedDr. Eva Marádová, CSc. ABSTRACT This diploma thesis deals with the attitude of students to alternative nutritional guidelines. The focus of this thesis is to analyse the interest of students in alternative nutritional guidelines. Theoretical part analyzes the literature, contains definition of target group, high school students (adolescents) with the main characteristics of this age period. Subsequently the thesis focuses on the impact and importance of nutrition on health of individuals during their development in adolescence and focuses on attitudes to food itself, the relationship to adolescent physical dimensions (body image) and also to issues related to these themes, ie. eating disorders. This thesis is also concerned with the general characteristics of alternative dietary guidelines, such as vegetarianism, macrobiotic diet and divided meals diet. The practical part explores the extent of alternative nutritional habits among high school students in Tábor, their reasons of choosing these ways of eating a and evaluation of their attitudes. There are recommendations based on the results of..