Estado nutricional e consumo alimentar dos universitários de nutrição da faculdade União de Goyazes

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the association between nutritional status and food consumption of Nutrition University of the União de Goyazes College. A cross - sectional descriptive study was carried out with students enrolled in the Nutrition course of the União de Goyazes College. Anthropometric data were collected on waist weight, height and waist circumference for determination of nutritional diagnosis using the Body Mass Index and Waist Circumference classification. A sociodemographic questionnaire was applied to obtain information related to age, sex, skin color and monthly family income, in addition to food consumption. 45% (n = 77) of the total number of students in the nutrition course participated in the study, with a mean age of 25 years and female predominance (n = 70, 90.91%). The nutritional diagnosis by BMI revealed that 61.04% of the students were eutrophic and 24.7% were overweight and 33.37% were obese. Waist circumference data, in agreement with BMI, indicated an inadequate diagnosis among 66,23% (n = 51) of the students. The frequency of consumption of fruits and vegetables occurs, respectively, between 49.35% and 46.75% of students for once or more per day. Of the ultraprocessed foods, in the frequency of at least 1 time day the chocolate is consumed by 62,34% of the students. It was concluded that there is a significant association only between the nutritional state of leanness, eutrophy and overweight with the lunch. Despite the absence of a significant association between nutritional status and consumption of in natura or minimally processed, processed and ultraprocessed foods, all academics consume some type of ultraprocessed food at least once a day.