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CHAVEZ CHOQUE, Roger; PACO VASQUEZ, Rubén; YUCRA ARZE, Roger  e  CORRALES LOPEZ, Henry. Nutritional benefits of the leaf of coca. REVISTA MEDICIS [online]. 2007, n.4, pp. 11-15. ISSN 1818-5223.

The cocaine leaf was used more ago than 5000 years by the pre-Columbian civilizations, this leaf is integral part of its civilization, Integra to its ancestral Farmacopea, to its social and religious rituals, to today. The investigators add who the ingestión of 100 grams of cocaine leaves surpasses the daily diet of calcium. iron. phosphorus. vitamin A.B2 vitamin and vitamin R recommended by the WHO for a person. The archaeologists have veritied who in Bolivia and Perú have been consumed the cocaine for about five thousand years. The methodology used in the work is of descriptive type with which \ve can describe and analyze the magnitude of the influence of the cocaine in the consumere of her. For which I visit myself supply centers where surveys work the dock workers making and controlling their weight. The conclusions at which we have arrived with diverse interviews that the dock workers of the East zone" Tajarete Bridge" a 100% is masticador newspaper of the cocaine leaf a daily regular feeding that is based on greater proportion in carbohydrates to regúlate amount of proteins and minor amount of fats.

Palavras-chave : cocaine; nutrition; tajarete; workers.