LIFE STYLE AND NUTRITIONAL PROFILE OF FEMALES ATTENDED TO IN A NUTRITIONAL CLINIC

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  • Eliana Santini UNIVAG - Centro Universitário Várzea Grande
  • Adilson Domingos dos Reis Filho Universidade de Cuiabá (UNIC); UNIVAG - Centro Universitário Várzea Grande
  • Carlos Alexandre Fett Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT

Keywords:

Lifestyle, Nutrition, Aging

Abstract

The aging process provides morphophysiological changes in the human organism, proper to age, and which directly affect the nutritional state of the elderly population. Current analysis evaluates the life style and nutritional profile of females attended in a nutritional clinic. Their life style, waist circumference (WC), body mass (BM) and height; later, the body mass index (BMI) of middle-aged (n=60) and elderly (n=24) females attended to at a nutritional clinic at the University of Cuiabá MT Brazil were calculated. Overweight/obesity prevalence according to BMI and that of increased risk/highly increased risk were verified according to the WC for both groups under analysis. Higher frequency of sedentary lifestyle in middle-aged (65.0%) was reported rather than in elderly (58.3%) females. Diseases were frequent in 73.3% middle-aged and 91.7% elderly females, whereas use of drugs featured 76.7% and 95.8% respectively in middle-aged and elderly females. Results show that sedentary lifestyles and possible nutritional issues contributed towards weight increase and risk increase in cardiometabolic diseases in middle-aged and elderly females. Nutritional guidance and the regular practice of physical activities are non-pharmacological requirements for a healthy lifestyle.

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Eliana Santini, UNIVAG - Centro Universitário Várzea Grande

Graduada em Nutrição pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – UFMT; Mestranda em Biociências pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – UFMT; Coordenadora do Curso de Nutrição do UNIVAG - Centro Universitário, Várzea Grande, MT; E-mail: [email protected]

Adilson Domingos dos Reis Filho, Universidade de Cuiabá (UNIC); UNIVAG - Centro Universitário Várzea Grande

Graduado em Educação Física pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – UFMT; Mestre em Biociências pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – UFMT; Docente do Curso de Educação Física do UNIVAG - Centro Universitário, Várzea Grande, MT; Docente da Faculdade de Educação Física da Universidade de Cuiabá – UNIC, Cuiabá, MT; E-mail: [email protected]

Carlos Alexandre Fett, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso - UFMT

Graduado em Educação Física pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – UFMT; Doutor em Medicina (Clínica Médica) pela Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Ribeirão Preto, SP; Docente da Faculdade de Educação Física e dos Programas de Mestrado em Biociências e Educação Física Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso – UFMT, Cuiabá, MT; E-mail: [email protected].

Published

2013-03-11

How to Cite

Santini, E., Reis Filho, A. D. dos, & Fett, C. A. (2013). LIFE STYLE AND NUTRITIONAL PROFILE OF FEMALES ATTENDED TO IN A NUTRITIONAL CLINIC. Saúde E Pesquisa, 6(2). Retrieved from https://periodicos.unicesumar.edu.br/index.php/saudpesq/article/view/2725

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