La alimentación de los escolares del siglo XXI: el comedor escolar

The feeding during the infancy have an important influence on the health of the future adult. The obesity, the coronary disease, the arterial hypertension and the osteoporosis are in a close relationship in one way or another with the diet. The new habits and life styles of population have labeled a substancial change in the alimentation of the young students that are influenced by their parents and by the television incitating to have as usual food that one with "empty calories". Parents absence for long time due to their occupational sessions makes children able to have their basic meals away from their home, in a restaurant or in the school dining room. The school dining room must be the appropriate vehicle to begin children in the acquisition of proper dietetic habits, as well as, hygienic and social ones. The Nutritional education in the School is a very important issue in order to teach a healthy life style to children.