Evaluación del Estado Nutricional en adolescentes de 15 a 18 años que asisten al Colegio Manuela Garaicoa de Calderón del cantón Cuenca en el año 2010

Abstract

A transverse and descriptive investigation came true, recruiting of aleatory way 300 students of the Manuela Garaicoa High School. The Criteria of inclusion were adolescent with ages understood between 15 and 18 years old; They excluded teens that present serious disease, pregnancy, or under any diet. The study comprised: Anthropometric measurements, evaluation of the physical activity and bosses of alimentary intervening ingestion realized opinion polls to the teens.- Results: The mean age in general was of 16.79 years, the nutritional normal status introduces 60.33 % of teens, and 31.33 % presents some degree of risk, overweight or obesity. As to the physical activity the 63.67 % accomplishes a moderate activity. According to the type of diet we found out that the 79 % consumes a diet hyper caloric without relation any one with the age group.- Findings: Investigation reveals that there does not exist significant statistically relation between Physical Activity, Type of nutrition and age with the nutritional State.