THE STRATEGY OF SUSTAINABLE NUTRITION OF PRESCHOOL AGE CHILDREN

Nutrition is a major environmental influence in physical and mental growth and development in early life. The Pre-school time is the only age, when children are not deciding themselves what to eat. Hence, in the proper diet of preschool children is concerned the whole society. The aim of this paper is to identify the stakeholders and analyze their importance and engagement in provision of sustainable catering service and nutrition education in preschool educational institutions. The research is based on the public health nutrition (PHN) practice bi-cycle, which is including community analysis and engagement, problem analysis and stakeholder analyses. The main focus of this paper is on stakeholder analysis, which is centered on results of two interviews conducted in May of 2011 - quantitative questionnaire of parents of kindergarten and qualitative face-to-face interview with the head of the kindergarten. In Latvia in provision of healthy nutrition are involved all levels of management - both arranged legislation and developed the recommended dietary norms and provided three times catering in kindergartens under the supervision of medical staff.