Identificación de los hábitos, conductas alimentarias y estado nutricional de los estudiantes de enfermería de primer ingreso de la universidad Rafael Núñez-Barranquilla 2022

Abstract

Lifestyles such as eating habits and behaviors develop from childhood and begin to take hold in adolescence and youth. The diet of young people and especially of university students poses a major challenge, due to the fundamental changes in their lifestyle. Likewise, emotional and physiological factors and periods of university studies often lead to adjustments or transformations around the responsibility of their diet. These aspects together with social, economic, cultural factors and food preferences configure a new nutritional pattern that in many cases is maintained throughout life, generating in the medium and long term the appearance of Chronic Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs). they affect all age groups and all regions and countries. These diseases are usually associated with older age groups, but data show that 15 million of all deaths attributed to CNCDs occur between the ages of 30 and 69. More than 85% of these “premature” deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries. Children, adults and the elderly are all vulnerable to risk factors that favor CNCDs, such as unhealthy diets, physical inactivity, exposure to tobacco smoke or the harmful use of alcohol