Hábitos alimentares entre estudantes universitários e riscos à saúde

Abstract

Food and nutrition are essential for a guarantee and protection of health, enhancing human growth and development, with quality of life and citizenship. In the last decades or dietary pattern, the sedentary lifestyle associated with unhealthy eating habits has been greatly diversified, influenced by the industrialization and global globalization, with a direct link with the increase observed in the last decades of overweight, obesity and chronic diseases, such as hypertension and diabetes. The objective of this study was to raise the eating habits and consumption of processed foods among academics from the Biological / Health area of the State University of Goiás-UEG, Campus of Exact and Technological Sciences - CCET located in the city of Anápolis, Goiás. a questionnaire containing several variables (socioeconomic, dietary habits, physical activity and health) for the descriptive analysis of the variables were used simple frequencies and percentages, to verify the significant difference between the students, separated by sex, we used the chi-square test, and test G. We had a total of 173 participants, mostly women, the highest consumption is of industrialized foods, the most incident illness among participating students was obesity, most of them are sedentary, and diseases that participants believe to be more associated with a diet unhealthy are diabetes, followed by hypertension, obesity, cancer and heart problems. Therefore it is necessary educational measures related to eating habits among university students.