| Summary: | Introduction: Hundreds of millions of people suffer from diseases resulting from excessive or unbalanced diets, and many countries are currently facing serious nutritional health problems, morbidity and mortality due to non-communicable diseases are increasing. Nutritional education of the population is required; the observatory of food sovereignty and nutritional education is created to empower decision-makers with knowledge so that they can have at the right time the necessary data to document their decisions.
Objective: to elaborate a complementary booklet on nutrition education at different stages of life, which can be used by students and professors of the medical career.
Methods: theoretical methods were used with documentary review, updated on the subject in journals, books and basic bibliography of the subjects of General Comprehensive Medicine, historical-logical analysis, combined with health education techniques; it was structured as an introduction, four chapters and bibliography,
Results: emphasis is made on the promotion of adequate nutritional diets at different stages of life, applying health education techniques with messages and images of healthy eating, it has an introduction on nutritional education, each chapter deals with this topic at different stages, chapter I- pediatric age; II- pregnant; III- older adult, IV.- some non-communicable diseases and bibliography.
Conclusions: Nutrition education is an educational strategy that leads to improve the health status of the population, responds to the government management model based on science, technology and innovation.
|
|---|