Associação entre os hábitos alimentares inadequados em escolares e seus desfechos no estado nutricional: uma revisão integrativa de literatura

The phase of life that comprises childhood is a period of intense changes and formation of eating habits that has a great influence on the determination of eating behaviors and choices in adulthood. Longitudinal dietary inadequacies may result in changes in nutritional status and noncommunicable morbidities. Therefore, it is necessary to offer different food varieties in the first year of life to allow a healthy nutritional intake. The aim of this study was to perform a literature review about the association of inadequate eating habits against nutritional status outcomes that may culminate in changes in nutritional status and comorbidities. METHODOLOGY: This is an integrative literature review about the analysis of eating habits in childhood, compared to the outcomes in nutritional status from 2013 to 2019 having as databases Scientific Electronic Library Online (SCIELO), PUBMED (NCBI). ) and LILACS (Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature), which used the health descriptors: nutritional status, children, eating habits. The selection followed inclusion and exclusion criteria previously listed. RESULTS: According to the results found in the studies, it is Brazilian Journal of health Review Braz. J. Hea. Rev., Curitiba, v. 2, n. 5, p. 4693-4700 sep./out. 2019. ISSN 2595-6825 4695 clear the importance of nutritional care in this phase, since poor eating habits reverberate in vertiginous rise in children, resulting in changes in nutritional status that may result in comorbidities that affect growth and development. Food and nutritional monitoring since childhood contribute to the acquisition of permanent healthy habits, since in the early years of life is built the basis of eating habits and where practices, symbols and meanings are rooted. CONCLUSION: Once one understands through the literary revision the eating habits that are related to the alteration of the nutritional state, it can be worked its change in the practice.