NUTRICIÓN PARA UN FUTURO BRILLANTE: PREVINIENDO LA DESNUTRICIÓN CRÓNICA INFANTIL EN GUAYAS.

Food and nutrition are part of the lifestyle, that is, the type of habits and customs that a person has, it can be beneficial for health, food meets the nutritional benefits required by the body, to maintain good condition. The objective is to describe a prevention program for Chronic Childhood Malnutrition for detected schoolchildren. A good diet in childhood will provide the nutrients that they need in the metabolic process and they will benefit from all the contributions contained in the foods that satisfy the needs of the cells and allow the adequate development of the organism in order to provide physical resistance consistent with daily life if you maintain a balanced diet. Chronic childhood malnutrition is the result of insufficient consumption of foods that contain nutrients that are absorbed by the body, both in childhood and during the mother's pregnancy, all of which leads to weight loss and growth arrest. psychological and psychomotor development, such as the appearance of infectious diseases as a consequence of poor functioning of the body. The role of the nurse in the prevention of chronic childhood malnutrition is aimed at promoting actions that help alleviate chronic childhood malnutrition, through the selection of foods that will be ingested to provide the nutrients that the infant's body requires and avoid diseases serious that can cause death. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]