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Eating habits of undergraduate health graduates
| Resumo: | In 2021 non-communicable diseases caused 90% of deaths and 85% of comorbidities in the European region of the World Health Organization. An unbalanced diet is one of the behavioral factors associated with mortality from non-communicable diseases. In Portugal 53.6% of adults are overweight or obese. Often the transition to university is associated with students leaving their parents' home, so there is often a change in the eating pattern of young adults. : To verify whether attending the last year of a degree course in the health area can be a factor promoting a complete, balanced and varied diet. |
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| Autores principais: | Machado, Dora |
| Outros Autores: | Brás, Manuel Alberto; Almeida, Assunção; Lourenço, Ana Cristina Gonçalves |
| Assunto: | Health science students Eating behavior Food and nutrition education |
| Ano: | 2023 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Instituto Politécnico de Bragança |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | Biblioteca Digital do IPB |
| Resumo: | In 2021 non-communicable diseases caused 90% of deaths and 85% of comorbidities in the European region of the World Health Organization. An unbalanced diet is one of the behavioral factors associated with mortality from non-communicable diseases. In Portugal 53.6% of adults are overweight or obese. Often the transition to university is associated with students leaving their parents' home, so there is often a change in the eating pattern of young adults. : To verify whether attending the last year of a degree course in the health area can be a factor promoting a complete, balanced and varied diet. |
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