Obesity in children from 5 to 11 years old

Abstract

Food is a need of the human being, it is very important in the first years of a child's life, with the passage of time, it has become a problem, since they have no idea about how to have a healthy diet, therefore they substitute nutritious foods for other dietary products that are very harmful for the first years of a child's life, which is why different diseases appear easily, including childhood obesity, which can cause new diseases. For this reason, this study was carried out, which aims to determine the main causes that produce obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years at the CAI 3 Comprehensive Care Center in the City of Milagro, which has a quantitative, exploratory and descriptive methodological dye. . For this study, 196 mothers of children who attend the CAI 3 Comprehensive Care Center in the City of Milagro were produced as a population, where reference is made to food, nutrition, childhood obesity, communication strategy and social marketing.