Propuesta gastronómica con la utilización de alimentos que promueven la salud bucal en los niños y niñas de la Unidad Educativa San Felipe Neri Riobamba 2013

Abstract

To promote oral health through the nutritional quality of the food that children eat is one of the main concerns of those who look with nostalgia that are increasingly more children who suffer from oral diseases because of a power that does not comply with the standards of nutritional quality and safety in their production. Authorities of San Felipe Neri High School of Riobamba City in Chimborazo Province, Have provided the necessary support to work in a research which results pointed to the development of a proposal for healthy eating for children and school age, this period starts from 4 to 12 years, age at which nutritional mistakes and their contradictory oral health effects are more and more serious and frequent. During this stage the consumption of fried food increases considerably, so it is necessary to limit this type of preparations due to its content, this food called “junk food” that carry high amounts of saturaded fat, sugar, cholesterol and scarce micronutrients, causing serious oral diseases and even the loss of pieces. For this reason, a proposal of healthy food has been created taking into consideration gastronomic and nutritional principles according to the energy request of the children recommended by the Ministry of Health of Ecuador. The methods of research applied were inductive, deductive and analytic synthetic nonexperimetal type. The population estudied were two groups, first 250 parents of children attending to San Felipe Neri High School, and 20 dentist surveyed.