ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE ESTUDIANTES DE OCTAVO SEMESTRE DE LA ESCUELA DE NUTRICIÓN Y DIETÉTICA DE LA UNIVERSIDAD TÉCNICA DE MANABÍ

Abstract

For decades, it has been related to nutrition, with the good or bad health of the human being, there are stages throughout life in which it is especially vulnerable from the nutritional point of view, one of these stages is the university, characterized for the omission of meals, repeated intakes or excessive consumption of fast foods. Taking into consideration, the impact that would generate the eating habits in the nutritional state of the students of the Technical University of Manabí. It was proposed as a general objective to evaluate the nutritional status of eighth semester students of the School of Nutrition and Dietetics of the Technical University of Manabí. The type of study was descriptive, observational, so the research was conducted directly at the Technical University of Manabí, in the eighth semester of the School of Nutrition and Dietetics; where the nutritional status and eating habits of the students were analyzed. Among the most important conclusions, it was obtained that there are several factors that affect the eating habits of students, and that despite the fact that the population studied is in underweight and a smaller proportion with overweight and obesity the percentage of risk is quite significant in relation to the total of the sample evaluated.