Influencia de los hábitos alimenticios y actividad física en el estado nutricional en escolares del 5to año de básica de la Escuela Fiscal “República de Francia” en la ciudad de Guayaquil, mayo a septiembre del año 2017.

Abstract

A good nutrition and physical activity are important in the development of children going through elementary school, but it is affected by many factors that intervene in the nutritional status, with the result of children with underweight, overweight and obesity. For this reason, the objective of this study is to establish the influence of eating habits and physical activity in the nutritional status of schoolchildren of both sexes in the 5th year of basic, of the fiscal school “Republica de Francia” in the city of Guayaquil. Cross -sectional descriptive study with a quantitative non- experimental approach with a population of 69 schoolchildren from 8-10, including both sexes, using as an instrument the "Krece Plus Test of Eating Habits and Physical Activity" and nutritionally valued with indicators such as Height/Age, Weight/Age and BMI/age. The results determined that the nutritional status that the majority of schoolchildren have according to the BMI / AGE growth curve (body mass index) is obesity; related this result with the Krece Plus Test of eating habits it is observed that 27.54% is in Mediu m Level and according to the Krece Plus Test of Physical Activity the 28.99% is in the Regular Level. It was demonstrated that there is a huge influence between Food Habits and Physical Activity that the schoolchildren acquired in the nutritional status.