Consumo alimentar e estado nutricional de escolares

Abstract

This work is a quantitative, descriptive and cross-sectional study carried out in schools with primary education in Cuiabá-MT, with the objective of evaluating the consumption of healthy and unhealthy foods of schoolchildren and its relationship with nutritional status. The studied population were schoolchildren aged 7 to 9 years, through evaluation of nutritional status with weight and height measurement. The nutritional status was classified according to BMI / I through the Anthroplus program. Food intake data were collected through interviews, estimating the intake of the last 24 hours. Epi-Info version 3.5.4 was used to tabulate and analyze the data. The Chi-square test was used to compare the prevalence of the studied variables. The results show that half of the male children presented eutrophy (50.0%), but 36.1% presented obesity, while 37.5% of the female children presented eutrophy and 27.5% presented obesity. It was concluded that the female population presented a greater tendency to be underweight and overweight and the male children obesity, among the healthy foods, the most consumed were rice, beans, fresh fruits, whole milk, beef and bread and Among the unhealthy foods most consumed by children were margarine, sweetened drinks, biscuits, cakes.