If a child is well fed or not during the first years of life, can have a profound effect on their health, as well as learning ability, in his communication and ability to reason, emotionally socialize and adapt to new environments and people.
Good nutrition is essential for growth and healthy development of infants.

Taking into account that excessive overfeeding in infancy has a 60-80% chance of developing obesity in adulthood, it is essential to take preventive measures for overweight or obesity in childhood is not perpetuated in the adulthood.
Adequate food, proper food choices and physical activity are the basis for a good physical, mental and social development of children.

Good nutrition is the first line of defense against many childhood illnesses that can leave traces of life, she begins with breastfeeding.

A breast fed baby presents:

• Lower rate of obesity in their adult stage
• Reduced risk of overfeeding
• Increased immunity
• Reduces the risk of allergic diseases like eczema and asthma
• Increases the child’s intellectual development

Proper nutrition and good health are directly linked through the lifetime, but the connection is even more vital during childhood. It is in this period where children can learn good habits for food in regard to the variety, the flavor and taste
The effects of malnutrition in early childhood (0 to 8 years) can be devastating and lifelong, preventing the behavioral and cognitive development, educational achievement and reproductive health, thus undermining the future productivity at work and the proper development of the adult individual.