Promotion of health and quality of life, related to nutrition and physical activities, of children who participate in gymnastics extension activities at UFPR.

At the beginning of this new century, scientific analyzes that are concerned with clarifying and therefore warn people about time-related social practices in modern society. In this context, we consider that eating is an activity of everyday life that symbolizes inscription in a culture and constitutes a social practice to be observed. However, this practice is involved in the speed imposed on modern life, making people barely have time to feed. We live under the pressure of the scarcity of time, we are charged to make immediate decisions, in a real fight against the clock - all in the name of the maximum "time is money." Such thinking is sustained in the law that governs capitalism in the established order. Like all the changes that humanity has gone through we realize a reduction in the quality of food and nutritional value of food served daily. The type of fast-food meal has brought such a standardizing impact on society's diet that has brought about in Italy as an attempt to bring everyone a healthier lifestyle focused on food quality and greater awareness in eating, which It's the slow food.