In order to improve the quality of nutrition education, the researchers suggest that teachers who teach
nutrition contents, foreseen in curricula of compulsory and elective subjects, are included in permanent
professional training that will provide them with appropriate knowledge related to nutritional science and
knowledge from the field of didactics. Through teachers’ regular and permanent education, it is necessary to
influence formation of their positive attitudes towards healthy eating habits and nutrition behavior, since in
their professional and private roles, teachers present an example for students. Teachers need to be qualified for
efficient follow-up and inclusion of the latest findings of nutritional science in their educational work. DeCicco
and Bergman (1997) stressed that a teacher’s nutrition knowledge and his/her relationship to nutrition are
connected to the number of hours of nutrition education in which the teacher was involved during the studies
and his/her experience obtained through teaching. Kealey, Peterson, Gaul, and Dinh (2000) stressed that during
teachers’ training, it is necessary to pay special attention to encouraging teacher’s motivation for healthy
nourishment, which positively influences efficiency in teaching children. It is estimated that the quality of
nutrition education that was carried out during our survey could also be under the influence of inadequate
education of teachers who taught students included in the survey.