The central axis to promote health on is based on education practices. The great challenge is still how incorporate behaviors that can reduce the presence of disease risk factors. The aim of the ‘Healthy Life Style Multiplier Agents’ program is based on the concept of work that puts together individuals close in age and from distinct school grades in order to influence their cultural development and psychosocial growth and change teaching-learning experiences. We describe the experience of 80 multiplier students with more than 1,060 classmates from 4 public elementary schools, in the city of São Paulo – Brazil.

The focus of the work points at healthy diet, regular exercise practice and damages associated to cigarette and alcohol consumption, through a theme content which regards knowledge, procedures and attitudes, what means in other words, which takes into account what the students know about health, how to put together these knowledge into their own lives.

The program aimed to train adolescents as leaders, facilitators or multiplying agents. During training, they develop didactic tools to be used in the interaction with their peers, through their own language. These multiplier students were chosen based on their personal skills, leadership and interest. The form of communication used was role play theater, musical parody, board games, and food experimentation.

The cultural differences among the adolescents were worked out in a comprehensive way, without particular cultural focus, regardless of the place of origin that their ancestors such as Africa, Europe, America, Middle East, Asia, and so on.

The employed techniques should lead to dialogues that would encourage the reflection on ‘doing or not doing it’, regarding physical activity, diet as well as smoke and alcohol consumption.

The mayor difficulty observed is the peculiar adults’ unbelief about the adolescents’ capacity for leading the teaching-learning process.