GUíA ALIMENTARIA Y NUTRICIONAL PARA PREESCOLARES DE LA UNIDAD EDUCATIVA “TERNURITAS”

Abstract

In pre-schooling as a stage of critical development, in which adequate appropriation is necessary, the fundamental element that conditions its biological, physical and social life potential is indispensable. The approach of adequate nutritional standards for the community. optimal for health, through the promotion of a correct, healthy and balanced diet for the reduction of malnutrition. Ecuador with a population of preschool children of 705,800 children, forming part of the group of Latin American countries that report persistently high rates of infant malnutrition in children under 5 years of age, who have 413,913 chronic malnutrition (retarded growth) and 148,023 are overweight and obese. As part of the food and nutrition policies of Ecuador, there is the School Feeding Program for preschoolers whose purpose is to provide free health services to public educational institutions in rural and urban areas, however it only contributes to the improvement of nutritional quality of the snacks distributed in schools as the only food environment, without considering the number and quality of other meals consumed by the preschool. This research work is a descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study, nonexperimental, with a population of 675 students and a sample of 75 students of both sexes, corresponding to the primary level of the Ternuritas Educational Unit,Portoviejo. The preparation of a food guide for the preschool population of the Educational Unit "Ternuritas" aims to promote health and, at the same time, prevent chronic non-communicable diseases related to diet, from the background at the local level 13 whose objective is to provide advice and technical information to educate and encourage children, parents and educators to follow healthy lifestyles