INCIDENCIA DE LA NUTRICIÓN INFANTIL EN EL RENDIMIENTO ACADÉMICO DE LOS ESTUDIANTES DE LA ESCUELA DE EDUCACIÓN BÁSICA 5 DE JUNIO DEL CANTÓN SANTA ANA

Abstract

Nutrition is considered one of the most important habits to live a healthier life, therefore, healthy lifestyle habits are of utmost importance in the prevention of nutritional disorders, especially in children. Hence, the relevance of deepening in this problem, whose limitations were, the bad nutritional habits of the students, high incidence of unhealthy nutritional habits of some teachers, insufficient preparation of teachers and students in subjects related to nutrition, under academic performance in students related to the consumption of high calorie food and low nutritional value. Likewise, the objective of the study consisted in the realization of an investigation of educational actions in child nutrition that contributed to the academic performance of the students. The investigation was approached according to the methods of the empirical level of knowledge and methods of the mathematical level of knowledge, the techniques used were the observation, the interview made to the educational leader of the school and the survey applied to the teachers of the institution. Finally, to solve the problem, a proposal was made that helped to solve the problem.