1. The questionnaire about food
Romania

2. UnHealthy Alimentation
Ouestionary applied for target group selection
Please respond sincerely to these questions in order to offer us some informations about
your taste for alimentary products.There is no wrong answers and you don`t receive
marks.
 First part of the questionnaire ask you right informations about you and your family.
 1.Write a few personal information
First name and surname.........................................
Age.........................................................................
The place you live in: □ urban □ rural
 2.In the school year time:
□ I live with my family in the city □ I live with my family in the rural area and I travel to
school by common transport □ I stay in the school hostel □ I stay in rent
 3.Did one of the family members work abroad?
□ Mother □ Father □ Both of them □ None of them
 4.How often you eat with family during a week?
□ Never □ Infrequently □ It doesn`t matter to me

3.  5.Are you concerning about the way you eat?
□In a high degree □Just a little □It doesn`t matter to me
 6.How many times are you eat healthy food prepared at home in a week?
□Never □Less than three □Every day
 7.Give marks from 1 (the rarest) to 8 (the most often) for the following aliments
depending how often are eaten in your family?
□Meat □Eggs □Milk □Cold meats □Vegetables
□Fruits □Cereals □Sweets
 8.Do you prepare in your family recipes from Romanian traditional cuisine?
□Yes □No
 9.In what occasion?
□Feasts and celebrations □Important events in family □Other
situations.....................................................

4. Romania

5.  10.What kind of cooler are you drinking most often?
□Water □Soda (acetuous juices □Fresh juices and tea
 11.What kind of brunches do you preffer in your school breaks?
□Fruits □A sandwich prepared at home □Biscuits □Chips □Sweets □Burger/Cheesburger
□Pastries □Pizza
 12.Do you eat ever fastfood instead of lunch or dinner?
□Yes, often □Rarely □Never
 13.In what company do you eat these products?
□In family □With my group of friends □With my classmates
 14.Have you ever interdicted by someone to eat fastfood? Have you ever recomended to
be carefully in consumption of these kind of food?
□YES □NO
 15.Are you associating these with idea of unhealthy food?
□In a high degree □Just a little □Not at all
 16.Do you consider that is necessary to learn right informations about a healthy
alimentation from nutritionists?
□YES □NO □I don`t know □I`m not interested
 17.What do you think when you say the word `health`?
__________ ___________ ___________ __________ __________
__________ ___________ ___________ __________ __________

6.  For The project The teenagers between fast food and culinary tradition was selected a
target group of 37 students, its structure being representative for the school population
of the Technical College No. 2 Targu Jiu. More than half of the selected students (21
students) come from rural areas, some are commuters and others living in the host home
or hostel of the school, during the school year. For commuter students with a program
in that mealtime cannot be met, there is a need of in a hurry snack and they are unable to
serving two meals in family. Students who live at home tend to behave like their
counterparts living in urban areas and adopt a style based food fast food
live in the town
comuters from the rural area
students that living in the
school's hostel
students that living in a host
home
sudents that didn't answer
Target group structure by area of origin and the place where they live during the school year

7.  Over 60% of students come from families that have no target group
member gone to work abroad. In families with at least one member
went to work abroad it can see that in most cases, the mother is the
one who is gone.
 Because in Romanian families the wife-mother is in charge of
cooking, her absence will influence in adopting a diet based on cold
food or quickly cooked food.
 As the wife-mother families in Romania is in charge of cooking, it will
have no influence on the adoption of a diet based on fresh or cooked
food quickly and briefly
Situation about the members of family that work abroad in the target group
mother
father
the both parents
no parents

8.  During the 6 hours spent at school students eat different
foods in breaks between classes. Most of the students who
begin the program at 8.00 do not get to eat breakfast at
home and then it appears the need of feeding breaks.
Although it was forbidden the selling of fast food products
inside the school, most of the students consume such
products they purchase from locations situated in close
proximity to school.
Food consumed by students in school breaks
burger
pizza
chips
pastries
sweets

9.  From the answers given by students is found that a few uses
besides fast food products and fruits. Fruit consumption is
low among young people, even if they associate this with
the concept of healthy food.
Fruits
different fast-food
products
At the same time, less than 25% of them consume plain water
or tea during these breaks, the rest preferring sodas drinks.
Carbonated drinks are among the pupils' favourites, even
if they cause some metabolic disorders

10. The structure of target group about favourite drinks.
16
14
12
10
8
6
4
2
0
mineral water fizzy juices unfizzy juice or tea no answer

11.  Approximately 70% of respondents said that fast food
products are consumed in the company of friends and
schoolmates. The entourage, the desire to be like others, to
be part of the group, lack of information, makes most
young people to behave like friends and colleagues, even if
it means abusing food that can hurt.
 Environment where the students consume fast food
products
Friends
School mates
Family
No answer

12.  Most subjects said that they replaced lunch or dinner
with fast food products, whenever they have
opportunity . Young people say they do so in the
company of friends and colleagues when they are in
town, because it is cool, but some of them are forced to
consume these products because they are prepared
quickly.
 Regarding traditional dishes, most of the respondents
declared that the families prepare traditional
cuisine, but their responses show that this occurs
rarely. Most commonly these dishes are prepared
during religious holidays or when special events take
place in the family.

13.  Most of subjects of the target group say they are really
interested about food but were not informed and do
not know the consequences of daily consumption of
fast food products. Some of them do not know which
foods fall into this category. Three quarters of them say
they want to be informed in schools about the
balanced nutrition
largely
very little
not at all

14. Conclusions
 Eating fast food has become a way of life for today's young people
regardless of their cultural backgrounds, levels of development, the
financial position of subjects. For many of them replacing traditional
preparations based on natural products with synthetic means more
aggressive behaviour
 The school documents revealed the fact that most of them come from
single parent families, with parents working abroad or they commute
(from rural spaces ) and have not received proper food education.
 This has created the need to acknowledge these students that their
health or behavioral problems are largely caused by unhealthy diets.
We think that the best way to achieve this goal is to run an European
project in which our students understand that their problems are the
same faced by young people in other countries and that a return to
traditional natural food, is the best option. An effective way to
persuade young people is to involve them in joint activities with
partners from other states

15. Thank you
for
attention!