Healthy eating in childhood: report of experience

Abstract

Objective: To report a health education action, where educational technologies were used to observe and guide mothers in relation to the correct nutritional preparation and offer to children aged 6-12 months in a Basic Baúde Unit (UBS). Experience report: It was conducted by six nursing students from the sixth semester of a private university in the State of Pará. An activity was developed in order to guide mothers about the correct nutritional preparation and offer to children aged 6-12 months. It was continued by carrying out a dynamic, making the mothers assemble plates with the food provided by the action facilitators, according to their knowledge about food for children aged 6-12 months. Final considerations: The educational action allowed to identify the early inclusion of foods, such as: ultra-processed foods, early intake of salt and sugar, artificial milk and foods with low nutritional content. In addition to biopsychosociocultural issues, which are also related to the type of food intake. The action made it possible to inform mothers about how to start, in a healthy and gradual way, the introduction of nutritious foods for children in early childhood, always aiming at the socioeconomic condition of the family.