CALIDAD NUTRICIONAL DE LA ALIMENTACIÓN QUE BRINDAN LAS GUARDERÍAS PÚBLICAS Y PRIVADAS QUE SE ENCUENTRAN EN LOS SECTORES URBANO Y MARGINALES DE PORTOVIEJO

Abstract

Feeding is a voluntary and external process that begins from the cropping or production of the food up to the abortion of the same one. Feeding must be complete, balanced, sufficient and suitable. The nutrition on the other hand is the utilization of the nutrients supporting the balance homeostatic of the organism at the molecular level and macro systemic to achieve a suitable health and to prevent the diseases. Feeding and nutrition aren’t the same thing. The nutrition has to see with the assimilation of the food in the cells of the organism, on the other hand feedings the set of voluntary and conscious acts related eating food, the same that depend most of the time of the sociocultural and economic way, of there that the food preferences in the kindergarten age will be determined by the family customs. Feeding in the day-care centers must provide a correct nutrition to obtain a growth, physical and intellectual development adapted, avoiding excesses or nutritional lacks to prevent many people with the diseases. The food habits and the ways of life acquired in the first two decades of the life are going to have great influence in the adult life. The day-care centers owe transmitting the message of which the foods and drinks that cover the nutritional requirements are adapted, but it is necessary bear in mind that the recommendations do to themselves from the same age, but not necessarily of the same social, ethnic or cultural stratum. The development of this work understands feeding of the children in initiate stages in 1st year of life and finishes between 3 and 4 years old that it is the age when they finish the kindergarten period Feeding of a child qualifies in 3 stages: The lactation that it understands the first 6 months of life, of transition that it understands between the 6 to 8 months of life and modified of the adult it understands between the 8 to 24 months of life. A healthy feeding is that one that offers a great variety of food in sufficient quantity for the growth, the development and the maintenance of the organism.