Hábitos alimentarios y estado nutricional en niños de 5 a 10 años que acuden al CAMI #5 de la ciudad de Guayaquil durante el periodo de octubre a febrero del 2020 .

Abstract

Eating habits, parents' education, excessive consumption of processed foods predisposes to infants being overweight and obese. In the school stage children cannot maintain a healthy and adequate diet because there are several factors such as schedule changes, lack of parents' time, economy, among others. This research work aimed to determine eating habits and analyze whether children are predisposed to be overweight and obese, with a quantitative approach, descriptive focus, observational design and crosssectional design. The study was conducted with a sample of 35 male schoolchildren in the range of 5 to 10 years. The techniques that were used to determine body composition were anthropometric measurements, 24-hour reminder and the KIDMED food consumption frequency test. As a result, it was obtained that 37.14% of the sample is overweight and obese, with 60% having a normal weight and 94.29% normal height, in terms of the frequency of consumption it was observed that the intake of groups of Higher foods are rice, yogurt, white meat with 94.29% compared to milk, cheese, seafood and red meat with 91.43%, the consumption of soft drinks and sausages is 85, 71%, With the requirements obtained from each child you can see that they have an intake of excess calories, that is, they maintain a high consumption of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Finally concluding that eating habits do predispose to suffer from non-communicable diseases in the sample studied.