Abstract
Objective: To observe the nutritional aspects of individuals with Down syndrome (DS). Methods: This was a bibliographical review, with a descriptive character and a qualitative approach to the data, where the formulation process took place through searches for scientific literature, through scientific initiation sites of the last 10 years, giving preference to the most current. Results: 22 scientific articles were selected, data from the Ministry of Health, 5 theses and 2 books related to the topic, where the nutritional aspects of individuals with DS were highlighted, the main difficulties / problems of these individuals, where most of them directly affect nutritional status , as well as the importance of nutritional monitoring and nutritional and nutritional education, especially of parents and / or caregivers, given that overweight / obesity is a dominant characteristic in people affected by this syndrome, accentuating with age, presenting most often eating difficulties. Final considerations: It was concluded that individuals with DS have many factors that predispose them to being overweight / obese, such as hypothyroidism, muscle hypotonia, cardiovascular diseases, slow basal metabolic rate, as well as inadequate eating habits and lack of physical activity. of great importance to carry out nutritional monitoring with these individuals from the first days of life, as well as to work the nutritional education, involving all that participate in the life of the person with SD.