Abstract

TAMAYO CABALLERO, Carlos¹ et al. "Determining factors and junk food consumption of students of the faculty of medicine, nutricion, enfermeryand tecnolgy medical, La Paz-Bolivia, 2016". Cuad. - Hosp. Clín. [online]. 2016, vol.57, n.3, pp.31-40. ISSN 1562-6776.

Abstract Junk food has become part of the eating habits of our society; being a determinant of overweight and obesity are chronic non communicable diseases. According to research students in Chile was observed that 56.8% consumes junk food due to inadequate intake ofbreakfast, the omission ofcertain meal times, the consumption of this type of food do in snacks at the university or in surrounding areas because of the lack of time for the trip they make to their homes. Objective: To identify factors and determinants of consumption ofjunk food students of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of San Andres 2016. Methodology: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted using the survey to students of the Faculty of Medicine for the descriptive analysis ofdata SPSS 19 was used. Results: Sample of 100 students 69% female and 31% are male, The mean age of the study population was 22 years, 43% from medicine, 58% live in the city of La Paz, the total 59% do physical activity, females have a frequency of 28% consumption of snacks, 38% know that junk food causes chronic disease, eating junk reaches 28% in La Paz being the highest, 36% consumes once / week fizzy drinks and 50.7% female replaced by junk food lunch male versus 48.38%. water consumption is low in women of32% from 1 to3 times /day, 48% replaces lunch for junk food and 38% medical and 28 % knowledge of nutrition have chronic disease causing junk food.

Keywords : Junk food; chronic disease; university students.

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