To describe the nutritional status and the environmental and health conditions of the Pataxó children from five villages of Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Among the under 10 years old, weight and height/length were classified according to the growth references of World Health Organization. Questionnaires evaluating environmental conditions of the households and health conditions of under 5 years old were based in the First National Survey of Indigenous People's Health and Nutrition. Among the 70 children evaluated (93.3%), 34 were under 5 years old. Nutritional deficits were not observed and overweight was registered for 11.4% of the children. Most of the children (74.3%) lived in households with electric energy, 95% in households with toilets and 52.9% in households that threw waste in septic tanks. Six or more antenatal appointments were reported by 82.4% of the mothers of the under five years old and 91.2% started the antenatal appointments within the first trimester of pregnancy. Among the causes of hospitalizations in the previous 12 months (23.5%), only one was due to diarrhea and none to respiratory infection. Universal coverage was observed for the majority of the vaccines. The absence of nutritional deficits among the Pataxó children may be associated to better housing and sanitation conditions and coverage of basic childhood health actions when compared to the conditions reported by the First National Survey of Indigenous People's Health and Nutrition and related studies with other specific indigenous peoples. The current study aims to back discussions and measures to improve the nutritional status of indigenous children in Brazil.

O Programa Nacional de Alimentação Escolar consiste na transferência de recursos financeiros do Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação aos estados e municípios, para aquisição de alimentos destinados à alimentação escolar. É uma estratégia promotora de Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional desde a promulgação da Lei n°11.947/2009. O objetivo do estudo foi descrever e discutir a trajetória da compra institucional de alimentos da Agricultura Familiar para o Programa de Alimentação Escolar nos municípios de Mariana e Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, nos anos de 2011 a 2021. Este estudo é descritivo, com análise de dados secundários obtidos a partir de portais oficiais do Governo Federal e informações coletadas diretamente nas Secretarias Municipais de Educação dos dois municípios. Foram descritos os valores repassados pelo governo federal e o percentual utilizado na compra de alimentos da Agricultura Familiar para o programa, além do número de agricultores familiares residentes nos municípios e o potencial produtivo da região. Os resultados indicaram uma baixa adesão dos municípios na compra dos alimentos e produtos da Agricultura Familiar para a alimentação escolar, sem alcance do mínimo exigido pela legislação e demonstraram que os municípios possuem um potencial produtivo. Destaca-se a importância de uma organização governamental para articular a operacionalização do programa, desde a assistência dada aos produtores rurais, a fiscalização do Conselho de Alimentação Escolar quanto o cumprimento da legislação, até a vontade política para que o programa possa ser efetivado em toda sua plenitude.

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Food and Nutrition Education (FNE) has become an important strategy designed to promote better food choices and to prevent diseases. The aim of this study was to evaluate three pedagogical resources used in FNE interventions. Fifty-six children were invited to participate. They were divided into three groups. After applying exclusion criteria, the group division were A (n = 20), B (n = 12) and C (n = 13). The study consisted of: initial assessment (t = 0), interventions, second assessment (t = 1) and third assessment performed three weeks later (t = 2). To evaluate the interventions outcomes, it were used 24h food recall and questionnaire. Each group received an intervention based on different theory. The lecture represented the traditional pedagogy. Workshop for juice elaboration was developed through bases of Johaan Henrich Pestalozzi’s theory and the history book, contemplated bases of theoretical framework of Paulo Freire. The results showed, in general, all interventions got great outcomes in increasing the level of knowledge about food and nutrition, however the lecture and the development of a juice using the bases of the intuitive method proposed by Pestalozzi, respectively, showed lower levels of forgetfulness.