Composición corporal, hábitos alimentarios, y estilo de vida en estudiantes de las carreras de Ingeniería Agropecuaria e Ingeniería Agroindustrial de la Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil en el periodo de junio a agosto 2022.

Abstract

Introduction: The university population is more prone to poor nutrition, since their diet is based on foods of low nutritional value, they fast for several hours and prefer fast foods that are high in fats and sugars as a first option. Objective: to evaluate the body composition, eating habits, and lifestyle in students of the Agricultural Engineering and Agroindustrial Engineering careers of the Santiago de Guayaquil Catholic University in the period from June to August 2022. This study was descriptive - observational with a quantitative approach, and a non-experimental cross-sectional design. Data collection was carried out through questionnaires on eating habits, lifestyle and frequency of food consumption, in addition, anthropometric assessments were carried out using electrical bioimpedance. The results obtained indicated that women have a higher percentage of body fat (42.9%) compared to men (30%). However, in the results of muscle mass men obtained a high percentage of muscle (55.1%). Likewise, it was possible to identify through the questionnaire of daily frequency of food consumption of the study population that the most consumed groups were meat and fish (35.70%), followed by cereals and grains (37.80%), vegetables and vegetables (21.0%). Finally, it was possible to determine the lifestyle through the FANTASTICO questionnaire, within the results obtained it was determined that the students present a good lifestyle according to their highest percentage 20.3% of their qualification as "good".