Determination of the reference individual of a university restaurant in the city of Salvador-Bahia

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Elane Barbosa
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Outros Autores: Fonseca, Maria da Conceição Pereira da, Silva, Lisanah Rufino da, Assis, Bruno Santos de, Lira, Carlos Rodrigo Nascimento de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Segurança Alimentar e Nutricional (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/san/article/view/8653157
• topic: Alimentação coletiva; Planejamento alimentar; Estado nutricional.; Collective feeding; Food planning; Nutritional status.

The work aims at the definition of the reference group and the nutritional needs of calories and macronutrients of students of a Federal Public University. It is a cross-sectional study carried out with 67 (8.4%) students drawn from both sexes of the universe of 800 users, scholarship holders, over 18 years old who attended the restaurant at least three times a week. Data collection was performed between February and March 2016, through a structured questionnaire to obtain socioeconomic information, lifestyle and physical activity; and anthropometric evaluation of the nutritional status with measurements of weight, height, skinfolds and waist circumference and calculation of the Body Mass Index, with the adoption of the proposed classification criteria of the World Health Organization. Frequency analyzes, average, t-test and chi-square were elaborated. It was found that the subjects of the study are young adults with body mass within the normal range and insufficiently active, with inadequate eating habits. The total energy value recommendation was 2,181 calories, 436.20 calories for breakfast, 763.35 calories for lunch and 654.30 calories for dinner, in both sexes.