Hábitos alimentarios, estilos de vida y estado nutricional de estudiantes que asisten al Golds-Gym de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil.

Abstract

This research is a prospective, non-experimental, quantitative, cross-sectional study that sought to know patterns that influence the lifestyle, eating habits and nutritional status of university students attending the GYM GOLDS of the Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil in period B winter 2019-2020. The sample of 43 students was obtained considering inclusion and exclusion criteria where 65.1% were female and 34.9% were male, with ages ranging from 19 to 30 years. Through the FANTASTIC validated questionnaire it was possible to know that 67.4% of the respondents have a good lifestyle, the frequency of food consumption was also applied, where it was possible to identify that 45% of the study population has good habits food Through INBODY, the BMI and cardiovascular risk were analyzed, data that allowed us to know that 55% of the patients were within normal limits, however they must eliminate certain patterns such as consumption of sugars and trans fats, in the same way the alcohol and tobacco consumption that in the long term could affect health with noncommunicable diseases.