مساهمة الفايسبوك في ترسيخ ثقافة التغذية الصحية لدى الشباب الجزائري : دراسة استطلاعية

Abstract EN

Many countries have witnessed a wide proliferation of social media; their services became at the top of websites liked by users through the internet.

They allow communication and interaction between users.

Facebook is considered as the first used website because of its privacy.

Youth use it for searching about groups achieving their interests, and they join them for chatting and exchanging ideas.

Among the followed pages are those of consolidating the healthy nutrition, which have recently proliferated.

They involve a great number of youth differing in their gender, age, and educational and cultural levels.

They aim at mobilizing the importance of protecting health through following a balanced nutrition system and practising sport.

Facebook, as an opened space, allows them to put forward their queries and discussing their issues with the participation of specialists in nutrition and sport.

Through this exploratory study, we look for Facebook contribution in consolidating the culture of healthy nutrition with a sample of the Algerian youth as a preliminary study permitting us revealing the extent of their interest in their pages and their fulfilments.

The results of this study have shown that: • The study sample use Facebook website in retrieving the useful pages, which are of the healthy nutrition, that have a positive impact on its life and future.

These pages aim at giving a nutrition culture to avoid deceases.

The study sample truly knows these pages, and follows them since 3 years.

It's a period of time allowing it to intercept the true information about its nutrition system.

• The study sample uses the required information from the healthy nutrition pages through Facebook and their interaction with news through liking or disliking them.

Joining these pages and trusting their content reveals the beginning of the interest with the topic of healthy nutrition and looking for requiring a balanced nutrition culture.

• For the fulfilments achieved by the healthy nutrition pages to the study sample, we may say that these pages have given youth many concepts; the healthy nutrition, practicing sport, and healthy diet are at the top of them.

They contribute in achieving many fulfilments including obtaining true information, adopting healthy nutrition programs, and putting forward the nutrition issues (obesity, diet, and deceases)and tackling them.

Moreover, they get in touch with the specialists in nutrition and sport.