The project also envisaged the administration of a questionnaire to 207 students between 16 and 19 years old. The results showed that 25% do it on foot or by bike (0.5%) to get to school. 36% arrive by car while about 52% by bus/coach. About a third of children take between 30 minutes and an hour to get to school. A third between 10 and 30 minutes. Two-thirds of the children interviewed play sports on a regular basis: football is the main protagonist with 40%, but also gym activities for 35%. Following, among the preferred sports, swimming (4%), basketball (8%) and volleyball (3%). 80% of those who practice sport regularly train between 2 and 4 times a week with an average of two hours per session. The results on the food front are also significant: around 17% of the students ate neither fruit nor vegetables the day before the interview, while around 40% ate only one fruit or a single portion of vegetables, 20% two portions of fruit and two of vegetables. As for breakfast: about 50% never or not always have it.
Again at breakfast the vast majority of students demonstrate that they make ‘monotonous’ choices, they often eat the same things: the most popular are milk and biscuits, milk and cereals and cappuccino and brioche; for snacks, the favorite foods are focaccia, small pizzas, salami sandwiches, toast, snacks, while the consumption of fresh seasonal fruit and yoghurt is sporadic. Over 40% of the students interviewed drink more than 8 glasses of water a day, but at the same time over 50% drink sweet drinks daily (especially cola and cola zero), tea with lemon or peach, orange soda, fruit juices.
On the theme of the ecological transition, the young people are sensitive especially on the subject of separate waste collection, soft mobility as an alternative to the use of motor vehicles, the fight against food waste.
“It is extremely important for us to support community initiatives of this type – declares the Director of the Pavullo Health District Massimo Brunetti -. These are projects aimed at the well-being of young people, bringing together the theme of sport and movement, healthy eating and sustainability, which confirm the great and important collaboration we have with schools and important associations such as Slow Food and the Italian Sports Center ”.