Qualidade da dieta de adultos com excesso de peso

• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Jéssika Larense Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: http://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/7620
• topic: Dietética; Consumo alimentar; Qualidade dos alimentos; Dietary assessment; Food consumption; Quality Score

Objective: To evaluate the quality of the diet of adults overweight. Methods: This is a cross-sectional study, which involved 102 adults of 18-59 years of both sexes, who were waiting for medical care at the Medical Specialty Center of the city of Lagarto-SE, the participants underwent evaluation socioeconomic, anthropometric and food intake. The latter through 24-hour records. Results: The study consists of 102 subjects, 82 females and 20 males, they were divided into two groups, 42.2% normal weight and overweight 57.8% of the submission. The macronutrient intake in the group with overweight was lower than in the eutrophic group, it was observed that the two study groups did not drink the recommended amount of food servings per day. Only the group Dairy foods had higher intake in the eutrophic group than the overweight. Conclusion: The individuals have a poor diet quality, since it does not consume the recommended amount of the food pyramid portions.