AVALIAÇÃO DO ESTADO NUTRICIONAL DE TRABALHADORES DE UMA EMPRESA NA CIDADE DE TRÊS CORAÇÕES - MG

Abstract

The worker nutrition plan (PAT) was created to ensure a proper nutrition and better life quality of workers. Objective-to evaluate the nutritional status of the workers and reach a conclusion of the impact of the workers food choice in heart diseases. City of TrêsCorações – MG. Methodology-to make this study a sample of 171 workers of the same company were used. In order to colletc the data, a questionnaire was used. In this questionnaire, workers had to aswer to question such as what was their current height, weight and abdominal circumference. The body mass index second Word heath organization, 1995. Was the method applied to evaluate the nutritional status of heart diseases, the abdominal circumference method was used. Results: the sample of workers were, on average 36 years old, being 100% of the sample of the male gender. It was observed that 54% of the studied individuals were overweight, and that only 39% was doing exercise on a regular basis, wich may be an explanation for the high overweight percentage. Conclusion: It was observed the importance of having a nutritionist to help develop strategies to avoid and prevent diseases originated in mal and bad nutrition and in overall help improve life quality of workers.