Educational guide on diet and systematic physical activity for health in the adult population of the Ciudad Azteca Urbanization. (Original)

Abstract

The high levels of sedentary lifestyle, compared to the lack of knowledge about the inclusion, in daily life, of healthy habits corresponding to balanced dietary patterns and systematic physical activity, allows us to discern the causes of the percentages of chronic diseases presented in the studies, clearly preventable, by What is imperative is to have guides that help and accompany the community in building healthy lifestyles. Therefore, the objective of this work is to establish a systematic diet and physical activity guide for health conservation in the adult population of the Ciudad Azteca Urbanization; determining the theoretical background that allows for behavioral actions of the individual and the entire selected population, through its diagnosis, which allowed characterizing the level of physical activity, eating habits and quality of the diet of the subjects; through a non-experimental quantitative approach study with descriptive observational and cross-sectional design. A sample of 60 individuals was used, of which 23.3% eat the five meals recommended to fulfill the nutritional functions and 8% have an insufficient diet, whose most consumed food group is cereals compared to sausages and fats. of which smaller percentages are obtained. The unstable health status reflects 52% of individuals with some chronic pathology present, with overweight and obesity being prevalent; Furthermore, the level of physical activity that is inadequate or insufficient to obtain health benefits reaches 65% of the population.