eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Food and Nutrition Research 2333-1240 2018-05-12 6 5 302 305 10.12691/jfnr-6-5-4 JFNR2018654 article Ariene Silva do Carmo 1 Taciana Maia de Sousa tata.msousa@gmail.com 1 Cristianny Miranda e Silva 1 Angélica Ribeiro e Silva 1 Adriana Candida da Silva 1 Arabele Teixeira de Lacerda 1 Luana Rosa de Oliveira 2 Adilana Oliveira Rocha Alcantara 2 Simone Cardoso Lisboa Pereira 2 Luana Caroline dos Santos 2 Nutrition Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil Nutrition and Education Department, Secretaria Municipal Adjunta de Seguran?a Alimentar e Nutricional, Belo Horizonte, Brazil This study aimed to evaluate the effect of a nutritional intervention on eating habits and nutritional status of schoolchildren. It is a non-controlled intervention study with children from the 4th grade of elementary of nine public schools of a Brazilian metropolis. Five workshops based on healthy eating habits were performed using ludic activities. Eating habits (food frequency questionnaire) and anthropometry (weight and height) were evaluated before and after the intervention. Nutritional status was obtained by Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-age. McNemar test was performed with 5% significance. We evaluated 613 students with a median age of 9.4 (8.6-11.9) years. After the nutritional intervention, we observed a reduction in the consumption of chips, cookies, candy, artificial juice and soft drinks (p<0.05). There was no significant change in the nutritional status (p>0.05). The intervention had a positive effect on eating habits of schoolchildren which might contribute to future changes on nutritional status. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jfnr/6/5/4/jfnr-6-5-4.pdf nutritional intervention schoolchildren food consumption nutritional status child health