Objective:

To establish the importance of an adequate nutrition in students with certain disability.

Materials and Methods:

This article presents a literature review within the databases PudMed, SciELO, Infomed, PAHO and search engines like Google Scholar, by typing key words in order to find original articles, thesis, literature review articles, and high-citation level journals, published from 1994 to 2019, in both Spanish and English.

Results:

A total of 29 articles and publications from the WHO, CONAFE (National Council for Educational Development) and INEGI (National Institute of Statistics and Geography) were chosen; of these, information was collected regarding the barriers that people with disabilities (PCD) face related to their daily diet and the health effects this implies was collected. In addition, the literature mentions the increase of people with disability in the last years, vulnerability circumstances and situations that can cause a higher risk of morbidity.

Conclusions:

It is important to know the current recommendations about the diet of these individuals, even though their calorie needs vary depending on the severity and degree of disability.