O adolescente interno do Instituto Federal Goiano - Campus Uruta? e o seu h?bito de consumo alimentar

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Cust?dio, Daniela Costa
• Orientador(a): Greg?rio, Sandra Regina
• Banca de defesa: Porte, Luciana Helena Maia, Carvalho, Maria Claudia da Veiga Soares
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Educa??o Agr?cola
• Departamento: Instituto de Agronomia
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Internato Escolar; Adolescente; H?bito Alimentar
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Boarding School; Adolescent; Food Habits
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Educa??o
• Link de acesso: https://tede.ufrrj.br/jspui/handle/jspui/4012

Adolescence is a period of intense physiological changes that can lead to nutritional vulnerability, first because there is a greater demand for nutrients related to the increase in growth and physical development, second, the change in lifestyle and eating habits that affect the intake and the need for nutrients. Such needs are more related to physiological changes than their chronological age, because of the differences that exist due to the growth rate, changes in body composition and sexual maturation. The adolescent have unhealthy habits related to eating, such as intake of fast food, soft drinks, sweets, crisps and biscuits industrialized. Often skip meals, or replace it with nothing nutritious snacks. Consume low amounts of fruits, vegetables, milk and dairy products. These habits combined with a sedentary lifestyle have led to increased rates of overweight and obesity, and consequently of chronic non-communicable diseases, either in this age group as in adults. The school is configured as a great ally in promoting the prevention of these diseases through actions aimed at improving the health of adolescents through healthy eating habits and physical activity. Some Federal Institutes of Education Science and Technology, especially the old agricultural schools, maintain the system of boarding farm. Such boarding schools should offer students housing, medical and dental care, and food quality, thereby socializing role and assistance to young people who, in most cases, are poor and come from agricultural areas. Being responsible for these school students, adolescents and biopsychosocial development stage, it becomes very important to evaluate the influence that the boarding produces food habits of these students. The objective of this study was to analyze the correlation between dietary intake and nutritional needs of adolescents internal Federal Institute Goiano - Campus Uruta?. Therefore, was calculated the body mass index by weight and height collected and conducted the food record to assess food consumption. The group of adolescents who integrated this research, characterized by students with a mean age of 15.98 years, and from other states, and Goi?s Assessment of nutritional status showed a 16% prevalence of overweight students and 4% with clinical obesity. The dietary assessment showed that students consume, besides the food offered by the school, other foods purchased outside of school that may be considered unhealthy foods.