Estilo de vida, consumo alimentar e composição corporal de universitários:

Upon entering higher education, individuals experience changes that are reflected in their lifestyle. Therefore, theobjective of this study was to know the lifestyle, body composition and food consumption of university students attendedby the National Student Assistance Program. To this end, a cross-sectional study with 70 students was developed andquestionnaires were applied to obtain information about lifestyle, level of physical activity, how they considered theirfood and a food frequency questionnaire to assess food consumption; weight and height were measured for the bodymass index; waist circumference and a four skinfolds were measured for body fat percentage. Spearman's descriptiveanalysis and correlation was performed on IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0 to characterize, respectively, the sample andevaluate the relationship between the variables of income, their diet, nutritional status, physical activity, sex andarea of study; food was assessed using food groups. The students considered themselves black and brown (80%),with a monthly income below one minimum wage (54.29%) and 45.71% were alcoholics. 67.14% were found to beeutrophic, 87.14% were not at risk for metabolic diseases, 47.14% had a body fat percentage above average and hada family history of chronic non-communicable diseases (77.14%). They demonstrated a varied diet, composed of allfood groups resulting in a healthy diet profile. It is concluded that the students have a lifestyle that is not compatiblewith a healthy one, even though the food profile is closer to such a pattern.