Ejecución de un plan alimentario nutricional saludable y el efecto del mismo en el peso de los oficinistas de 20-60 años que laboran en la "Empresa Electríca", Cuenca-Ecuador, 2011-2012

Abstract

This research's main objective is to run a healthy nutritional eating plan and know the effect of this on the weight of the office of 20-60 years working in the "Electric Company". This meal plan is included conducting weekly minutes cycles (menus) in the institution the point, which opened their doors to make these menus which consisted only lunch which was provided to the utility office. In regard to other meal times, it was through nutrition education, workshops, lectures, nutritional consultations. All this was part of the meal plan, including physical activity. Each participant had their nutritional tab where it was writing down your pesos a month; the methods used were weight and height with the results obtained BMI (body mass index), most widely used indicator of nutritional status of adults by the ease of obtaining data and accurate results. The results of the 86 office of the Utility that formed our sample were: In the initial nutritional assessment 17.4% were obese, 54.7% were overweight and only 27.9% normal. After our intervention, the end of the project, made a last nutritional assessment in which the following results, the 8.1% obesity, 47.7% overweight and 44.2% standard. With respect to physical activity only 5.8% have an intense physical activity, 37.2% moderate physical activity, and 57% light activity. With this research we hope we have fulfilled our objectives and have contributed positively to the nutritional health of this population to improve their quality of life.