Avaliação do estado nutricional, nível de atividade física e consumo de bebida alcoólica dos alunos da UTFPR Câmpus Londrina

Abstract

With the academic routine, new responsibilities and other changes, as leaving the parents' house, implies significantly in the nutrition of college students. Therefore, they chose fast food to facilitate their routine. These changes result in inadequate nutritional status, which causes disarray in students' academic development. It can also be considered, the consumption of alcoholic drink and the absence of physical activities as risk factors. This study aimed to evaluate nutritional status, verifying food and alcoholic drink consumption and the level of physical activity of the students, using anthropometric methods and a questionnaire. The results show that the majority of students have the ideal weight (eutrophic), but the food habit is incorrect, providing a higher consumption of processed foods and high energetic value. In addition, those results, more than half of the students were classified as sedentary, since they don't practice any physical activity. Food orientation programs and incentives to practice physical exercises should be encouraged and practiced in university settings, because at this stage habits can be reflected throughout their lives.