Comprender los Hábitos de la nutrición en niños y niñas de 3 a 6 años: Hábitos de la nutrición en niños y niñas de 3 a 6 años en una institución de Bogotá

Nutrition habits are a fundamental element in the development and growth of children from 3 to 6 years old, this topic involves behaviors, values, good nutrition, transformation of customs and nutritional habits, this allows us to observe factors of social development, food practices and traditions that are transmitted from one to another, the family plays an important role in the acquisition of ways of eating and tastes for different foods.

The main objective is oriented to understand the nutritional behaviors in children’s from 3 to 6 years old, in an educational institution in the city of Bogotá, in this population there are difficulties to vary foods and improve the quality of nutritious foods. This allows us to work with a social spectrum and in a specific population, it seeks to identify through current theoretical and conceptual references oriented to nutritional habits in children, which establish categories of analysis to respond to the research topic. Our methodology is based on qualitative research, through a rapid ethnography study using participant observation as a tool for data collection. Bronfenbrenner's ecological model estimates that the development of the human being occurs through a set in which the individual and the environment interact, understood as the factors that surround the growth, formation and transformation that influence the being.

Nutrition is an essential factor in growth and physical and mental development, where the characteristics of this population show us a reality where children’s have difficulties with adequate nutrition, and one of their options is to enter a district school where nutrition is offered varied and nutritious diet.