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ACUNA GONZALEZ, Iraima María; GUEVARA RIVAS, Harold  y  FLORES, Mitzy. Nutritional education under the Critic-Dialectic Paradigm in a community: Preliminary contributions. Salus [online]. 2013, vol.17, n.2, pp.20-31. ISSN 1316-7138.

The high frequency of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome product of bad dietary habits in the community of the sector "Jose Ignacio Acevedo" Los Guayos, Carabobo State is that motivates us to promote healthy eating habits. Those three elements are the substrate of a group of pathologies known as "chronic non-communicable diseases", which have an impact on the quality of life and in the population´s expectancy of life. The purpose of the article was to generate an approach to nutritional education that will enable the socialization of the nutritional knowledge in communities with limited economic resources from the qualitative critic-dialectic paradigm and adapted to their health needs, which will allow to generate solutions among its own members, product of the arrangements and consensus towards the improvement of their diet and health. Because the high frequency of overweight, obesity and metabolic syndrome we believe that the best way to address this problem is to propose an educational strategy that will allow the empowerment of a consensual and nutritional knowledge in construction, that values their beliefs, which result them friendly and therefore acceptable and easy spread between them. Dare to configure the educational foundations that depict the socialization of the nutritional knowledge will enable us to promote the exchange of those determinants of the health problems related to the feeding in this community.

Palabras clave : Nutritional education; food habits; empowerment; nutritional knowledge.

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