Abstract

The objective of this research is to present the determinants of the double nutritional burden in the homes of children of the Early Childhood Program of the Mayor's Office of Barranquilla. A cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out in a sample of 295 boys and girls, selected by simple random sampling. The source of information was primary, tabulated and mechanically presented the results. The macro variables studied were the sociodemographic, economic and food characteristics, the anthropometric nutritional status, household food security and the physical activity of the mother or caregiver. The frequency of the double nutritional burden was 26.4%, which prevails in the families of mothers with an average educational level, the female head of household, mothers between 18 and 29 years old with 56.6%, the average Age was 30.0 years with a standard deviation of ±10.2 years. Children between three and four years, the mean age was 2.9 years, with a standard deviation of ±1.2 years and socioeconomic level low. Likewise, it observed that households with a double nutritional burden consume a higher proportion of carbohydrate, fat and empty calorie foods and present a degree of food insecurity in 75%. The double nutritional burden in early childhood shows a complicated situation of deficit and excess that forces us to continue looking for strategies that allow the approach of this problem in a comprehensive and intersectoral manner.

Keywords:

Chronic malnutrition, demographic transition, epidemiological transition, nutritional transition, obesity, overweight,

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