A diet is a change in nourishment used for bettering health, or various types of weight - loss reasons. Having sensitivity to food means, that one person experiences different symptoms after consuming some type or variety of food. In this case, a doctor prescribes a diet, as it is the only way of keeping the person healthy. The number of children in schools and kindergartens, that experience problems with nourishment, is continuously growing. This is why it is very important to let the children know about the basic facts and information of different reactions to food. This is done so they will know how to properly act in a case of an allergic reaction. The Primary school curriculum has already got, in regards to a healthy life style, a lot of basic information. The purpose of this work was to find out how high the level of knowledge is amongst children when talking about the meaning of different diets, and how well they know the facts about medical implied diets. I tried to find out what content the primary schools are implementing in the curriculum regarding dieting. Based on the pattern of 216 students from 6th to 9th grade of primary school, I found out that knowledge about dietary nutrition is much better with girls, but much less good with boys. To keep better knowledge about dieting, the curriculum should contain contents about different kinds of diets and regarding allergic reactions or sickness, based on different reactions when consuming food.
The contents should be put into the curriculum, with attention payed to the cognitive skills of students. From the 1st till the 5th grade students should know all of the facts of healthy dieting and they should know some medical implied diets. From the 6th grade further on, the students should know about the most often prescribed medical implied diets. The attention should be focused on the subject of household knowledge and biology, and nourishment and sickness based on food allergy, which should all be taken very seriously.
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