Estado nutricional y hábitos alimentarios en nadadores de la Federación de Chimborazo 2013.

Abstract

The present research objective is to determine the swimmers nutritional state and the eating habits of "Federación Deportiva de Chimborazo'' by non-experimental and descriptive design with 60 swimmers as sample during about 6 months. Information was gathered by surveys and anthropometric and chemical data gathering. The gotten date were introduced in a computer program JMP v5.1 in order to facilítate the variable analysis and to get the following information: There is prevalence of male gender, more than 50% has secondary istruction, and most of them are between 10 and 20 years old. In the nutritional evaluation 5% has LOW HEIGHT and 5% severe lowheight, 13, 3% has overweight and 5% obesity and 8, 3% anemia. By analyzing the relation between body-mass with the physical activity and the energy and macronutrients modification percentage in the group, the differences are statistically meaninigfu since the value of weight is < 0.05. That is, both physical activity and food consumption are important and influential in the total fat percentage to determine the nutritional state. Despite energy. Carbohydrate and protein consumption the eating habits are unequal due to the high fattening food consumption, It is recommended to make periodically evaluation and; nutritional observation of eating habits to rely on high- performance athletes.