Counteracting poor eating habits to improve the academic performance of fourth-grade primary school students

Abstract

In this research, it was possible to observe some of the difficulties that children have in order to improve their academic performance, which is the high consumption of unhealthy foods and bad eating habits, which is why it led me to take up this topic "counteracting bad eating habits to improve the academic performance of fourth grade elementary school students" and to raise the following questions and objectives for this research: How to identify the causes that prevent learning due to the lack of commitment on the part of students, when consuming unhealthy foods or low nutritional value? How to strengthen the knowledge of children by practicing good eating habits? Based on the research questions, the following objectives were designed to guide this work: General objective Counteract bad eating habits to improve the academic performance of fourth grade students at the Cuauhtémoc elementary school, El Espino, Otzolotepec, State of Mexico, through innovative proposals that are proposed to support children in their academic training. Specific Objectives: To understand the causes of unhealthy food consumption among third-grade children at the Cuauhtémoc Elementary School. To design innovative proposals that employ different strategies to promote children's learning. These activities aim to improve the problem; the objectives of this work are to address and provide a solution to the proposed problem. Thus, the proposal yielded positive results in terms of the implementation and consumption of healthy foods.