Teaching tasks to develop a food education in the students of the physical culture career

Abstract

In the curriculum for the Physical Culture degree course, the aspect related to environmental education plays an important role in the training of these professionals as health promoters, in order to promote a food culture through the subjects of their curriculum. This paper presents teaching tasks designed to introduce the topic of nutrition, through the subject Biochemistry of Physical Exercise, taught in the Physical Culture course, taking into account the potentialities that its contents offer in this sense. It contains a sample of the tasks that with this objective are being used with greater regularity in the Physical Culture and Sport Faculties of the University of Holguin, as part of the work developed by the group of the Biological Fundamentals discipline. Based on a diagnosis of the initial situation and the analysis of each topic of the program, the knowledge system was selected, which due to its content, can contribute to raise the food culture of the students in order to achieve healthy lifestyles in the subjects with whom they interact, without neglecting its multidisciplinary and multidimensional character.