Relación entre los hábitos alimentarios, composición corporal y nivel de conocimiento nutricional en futbolistas del Club Deportivo Guayaquil City.

Abstract

Within sports nutrition, football has become one of the most practiced sports in the world and also of great scientific interest such as the evaluation of food intake, nutritional requirements. A few years ago, nutritional knowledge in athletes was implemented through a questionnaire. Therefore, the objective of this study is to analyze and verify if there is a significant relationship between eating habits, body composition and the level of nutritional knowledge. This study was descriptive, cross-sectional and relational with a quantitative approach. A questionnaire was used to determine the level of nutritional knowledge and a food consumption frequency questionnaire, complementing the anthropometric measurement in soccer players according to the ISAK protocol (International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry) to determine body composition with the Yuhasz equation. Among the results we found that the level of nutritional knowledge in athletes was deficient (83.3%), the consumption of different food groups exceeds their recommendations, such as lean meats, eggs, fish and shellfish (83.3%), as well as found that 91.7% of the players have good adherence to water consumption. There was no significant relationship between habits and body composition, but there was in the level of nutritional knowledge p<0.05. It is worth emphasizing as a recommendation the reinforcement of food education and the implementation of the nutritional knowledge questionnaire for the different sports clubs for future research.