Nutritional Status and Lifestyle of Students of a University Restaurant in the City of Salvador - BA, Brazil
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Keywords
collective feeding, eating habits, nutritional status, university students
Abstract
In order to know the Nutritional Status - NS and the lifestyle of the students of a university restaurant, located in Salvador-Bahia, Brazil, was carried out with 70 university students, over 18 years of age, in 2016 a cross-sectional study through the application of Structured questionnaire with socioeconomic information, lifestyle and physical activity. It was also evaluated the EN, with calculation of Body Mass Index-BMI, Waist Circumference - WC and percentage of fat -% BF, using the classification criteria proposed by the World Health Organization for verification of Significant differences by the Fisher test, between the sexes. The majority of the interviewees were young adults with normal body mass, but with overweight and obesity in a portion of them, linked to alcohol consumption, tobacco consumption and inadequate eating habits, being important factors in the genesis of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases - NCDs.