ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the individualized nutritional intervention on: 1) Anthropometric variables; 2) Changes in lipid intake variables; 3) Changes in plasma lipids concentrations. The relationship between the initial and final difference in plasma lipid concentrations and the quality of the intake was analyzed. The nutritional intervention was provided in a four-month period to a 27 dyslipidemic children. The results indicate that individualized nutritional intervention favors weight loss and reduction of fat indicators in overweight children with adequate proteic and caloric reserves, not affecting the normal growing process. Those children with normal weight and caloric reserves maintained them without affecting growth. The nutritional intervention also had a beneficial effect on those variables related to dietary intake. The reduction of the saturated fat and cholesterol intake in dyslipidemic children resulted in a significant decrease in total plasma concentration of cholesterol and LDL-C lipoproteins (11 and 17, respectively). These results show the importance of nutritional intervention in dyslipidemic children since it seems an efficient way for prevention, control and treatment of lipid metabolic disorders over lipemic reducing drugs.