OVERWEIGHT PREVALENCE AND PHYSICAL EXERCISE PRACTICE IN NUTRITIONAL FOOD UNIT WORKERS

Authors

  • Vagner de Souza Vargas
  • Rubens Cáurio Lobato

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14295/vittalle.v19i2.986

Keywords:

Sobrepeso. avaliação nutricional. Saúde do trabalhador. Unidade de alimentação e nutrição. Exercícios físicos. Overweight. Nutritional evaluation. Worker’s health. Nutritional and food unit. Physical exercise.

Abstract

Overweight has been shown as a risk factor to cronic-degenerative diseases and metabolic syndrome. The aim of this study was to make a nutritional evaluation of all workers in a nutritional food unit in the Hospital Sociedade Portuguesa de Beneficência de Pelotas/RS. During June to August 2001, all workers, except the nutritionists, were interviewed and nutritionally evaluated by the author of this study. In this study, overweight was found in 36% of the workers, most of them were older women with low education. Thus, one of the strategies that could be put into practice in this situation is to start a nutritional education process for all the workers and to prescribe dietotherapy when it is required.

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Author Biographies

Vagner de Souza Vargas

Graduação em Nutrição pela Universidade Federal de Pelotas (2001) e Mestrado em Ciências da Saúde pela Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (2006).

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Rubens Cáurio Lobato

Formando do curso de Ciências Biológicas-Licenciatura pela Fundação Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (FURG).

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Published

2009-08-07

How to Cite

Vargas, V. de S., & Lobato, R. C. (2009). OVERWEIGHT PREVALENCE AND PHYSICAL EXERCISE PRACTICE IN NUTRITIONAL FOOD UNIT WORKERS. VITTALLE - Revista De Ciências Da Saúde, 19(2), 47–55. https://doi.org/10.14295/vittalle.v19i2.986

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