This work aims at retrieving the process of genesis and constitution of Alimentary Education, throughout the analysis of specialized literature, published from 1934 to 1946. The period from 1934 to 1939 has been characterized by the configuration of scientific bases of rational nourishment, while the period from 1940 to 1946 has been characterized by synthesis and definition of conceptual and disciplinary marks of the nutrition science,resulting in two disciplinary forms for the Alimentary Education: Hygiene and Alimentary Education, which has pointed out an important preocupation with content, and Alimentary Education, centred on pedagogical instruments.
Alimentary education; nutrition; health; history