Food consumption and nutritional supplements for physical exercise practitioners at a gym in Juiz de Fora-MG

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: The food consumed define your health, body composition and performance, so the aim was checking food consumption and use of supplements by adult practitioners of physical exercise in a gym of Juiz de Fora. Materials and Methods: The present study had transversal delineation, accomplished with individuals of both sexes practitioners of physical exercise, aged between 20 and 59 years, at gym in Juiz de Fora, MG. In collection of data was used a structured questionnaire containing questions on personal data, clinical history, anthropometric assessment and body composition, physical activity, dietary supplement consumption and food consumption. Discussion and Results: Of the 58 participants, 67,2% were eutrophic for classification of body mass index (BMI), while 66,67% presented high body fat percentage. The men presented major average consumption of calories, proteins and carbohydrates, when compared with women. And women presented minor consumption of lipids, when compared to the recommended. The actual calorie consumption differed of the caloric consumption recommended for eutrophic and overweight, of both sexes. Only 39,7% of the volunteers made use of dietary supplement, however, the use of dietary supplement did not influence the anthropometric measurements and body fat in men and women. Conclusion: The food consumption and supplements of the volunteers in this study, was not suitable, reflecting in body composition, evaluated by the indexes of body fat percentage and BMI.