Valoración del estado nutricional, consumo de alimentos y estilos de vida del Grupo de Operaciones Especiales (GOE) de la Policía Nacional del cantón Guano provincia de Chimborazo. 2013.

Abstract

This investigation was carried out to aim at assessing the nutritional status, food consumption and lifestyles Special Operations Group (GOE) at National Police, in Guano city. The study is non-experimental-descriptive, 30 police were applied a survey for evaluation of the components described above. Data were tabulated by JPM v5.1 program within the general characteristics with respect to the results found that: 96.7% men and 3.3% are women between the ages from 21-39 years, 56.6% have a typical middle socioeconomic level, 43.4% normal IMC and 56,6% have a problem of overweight and obesity, 16.7% tends to suffer a cardiovascular problem, 70% servers have a fat percentage of obesity, glucose 100% normal, HDL cholesterol 86.7% normal and 10% high, LDL cholesterol 66.7% normal and 33.3% high limit, total cholesterol 83.3% normal and high limit 16.7%, triglycerides 93.3%normal and 6,6% high and slightly increased, fat intake is 23.3% of a very high diet and 10.0% of a high diet, the consumption of fruit, vegetables and fiber are 53.3% low, 23.3%consume some type of alcoholic beverage, 90.0% have a low dependence on nicotine and 100% moderate physical activity. Finally, it discovers statistical relationship between the diagnostic from IMC, fat percentage and waist circumference.