Resumen

GAROFALO, María Rocchina; SIFONTES, Yaritza; CONTRERAS, Mike  y  CUENCA, Amanda. Nutritional education, a challenge in Venezuela today. An Venez Nutr [online]. 2020, vol.33, n.2, pp.161-168.  Epub 14-Oct-2021. ISSN 0798-0752.

Nutrition education is a tool that promotes the creation of healthy eating habits for life. It allows the individual to receive a solid knowledge to select, prepare and preserve foods of high nutritional value, to experiment with emerging food products and to compare their experiences with family and other community members. Nutrition education is essential for adopting a healthy lifestyle and reducing the risk of both chronic diseases and those transmitted by contaminated food. Social networks and the web have been the ideal vehicle to multiply quality nutritional interventions. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and regulated containment measures, the spaces traditionally used to teach and provide nutritional education have been disabled, as they are conducive to the transmission of the viral agent. In Venezuela, nutritional education was not prepared for a sudden migration to the virtual mode for multiple reasons, including Internet connection, interruptions in electrical service, availability of electronic equipment, and digital and technological training of the professional in the area. Currently, telemedicine has promoted the transmission of knowledge from the virtual mode to maintain social distance, due to which the exploitation of institutional spaces for information and communication of knowledge in nutrition emerges as a necessity. Therefore, the purpose of the following article is to examine some elements and challenges related to the practice of nutritional education in virtual environments.

Palabras clave : Nutrition education; eating habits; nutritional information.

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