Health in the Right Measure: Promoting Healthy Food and Regular Physical Activity Practice for UFRJ Servers

Introduction: The epidemiological transition is one of the factors related to the increase in the prevalence of chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCD), such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer. Among the risks of risk to the development of CNCD are obesity, smoking, alcoholism, sedentary lifestyle and inadequate eating habits, with the last two levels having a high impact on gender and disease progression. Objectives: To promote healthy eating habits and to combat physical inactivity through nutritional monitoring and regular physical exercise, using a competition to stimulate adherence of the institution's employees. Methods: The present project is in agreement with the longitudinal study with the work of evaluation (anthropometric, body composition, laboratory and food consumption), in the eats of the times (at the beginning and end of the four-month intervention period). According to nutritional monitoring and individual guidance on regular physical exercise practice over a period of 12 weeks. Weight reduction, body fat reduction, changes in working methods and eating habits, and the relationship to routine physical activity after the intervention period, and are retested after six months. Expected results: Reduction of sedentary lifestyle, weight loss and body fat, improvement of eating habits, quality of life without working environment and health condition of the participants.