Evaluation of a nutritional state of a working population of the agricultural sector in the Arroyo Naranjo municipality. 2018

Abstract

Introduction: The obesity and the overweight are affecting the working population at world level. Labor situations as the long days, the labor stress, the lack of suitable conditions to carry out the lunch appropriately in the work, sedentary labor activities, increment the deposit of corporal fat. Objective: To evaluate the nutritional state of a working population of the agricultural sector in the Arroyo Naranjo municipality, in the period January-September 2018. Material and method: A cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted; determined measures of anthropometry and factors of related risks were analyzed in a sample of 33 workers. Results: Age average 53.2 years; 72.7 % was men; 33.3 % was classified as overweight and 39.4 % with obesity; 76.2 % of the men and 66.7 % of women presented indicative figures of abdominal obesity; a 27.2 % have hypertension, 36.4% dislipidemias, 45.4 % osteoporosis, and 12.2 % diabetics; some opposing labor factors were: you release labor days, labor stress, the lack of suitable conditions to work, schedules of lunch they are not completed, a part of the labor activity doesn't demand a great caloric expense, alterations in the dream for labor concerns. Conclusions: We know the limitations of the study, small sample size; but the results indicate a real problem; we have the studied population's important part that it suffers of overweight or obesity, associated to base pathologies; where the little enthusiasm converges for the practice of physical exercise. The formula CUM-BAE seems to be useful to evaluate the patients, but a bigger sample is required to validate it.