Los hábitos alimentarios y su incidencia en el estado nutricional de los niños/as de 1-3 años de edad que asisten al Centro Infantil del Buen Vivir Yalile Yapur de Bedrán del cantón Naranjito en el periodo de mayo – septiembre del 2017.

Abstract

Children are one of the groups most vulnerable to malnutrition, the right to good nutrition and adequate nutrition is universal and essential for all, so this research aims to determine the incidence of eating habits in the nutritional status of children of 1-3 years of age who attend the YALILE YAPUR DE BEDRAN child care center in canton Naranjito between May and September 2017. The study responds to a non-experimental methodological design of a descriptive and transverse type observational, with a quantitative approach. The observation unit was 46 children aged 1 to 3 years. Through an anthropometric evaluation it was determined that 80% of the children present a weight and an adequate size for their age, that between 40 and 50% are overweight and obese according to the P / T and BMI / E and between 9 and 15 % present malnutrition, whether acute, global or chronic, as they have low P / T, P / E and T / E. With the results obtained through the study it is shown that poor eating habits influence the nutritional status of infants, since children who are of adequate weight and size also have healthy habits such as eating more than three times a day and in food selection there is little rejection.