What and How Much Our Children Drink

In the article, considering analysis of scientific and technical domestic and foreign literature, we make an analysis of one segment of healthy lifestyle among primary school children – drinking adequate amounts of liquids. In the beginning we present the importance of sufficient drinking, especially water, and efforts of the Slovenian Government to facilitate enough and healthy drink for Slovenian schoolchildren; the article presents results of research conducted on a sample of 288 primary school children in all three primary school triennia (all school students were involved). We have established that most children do not drink enough (especially in the school time), that during the day they drink »healthy« drink (juice and water), but on special occasions and in restaurants they usualy choose fizzy drinks or juice.

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