Realizar o café da manha favorece a saúde?

Abstract

Objective: Identify sociodemographic factors, life style, dietary and anthropometric related to eating breakfast among Public Health Promotion users. Methods: Crosssectional study among all users aged 20 or more who entered the service from March 2007 to December 2010. We investigate socioeconomic data, dietary habits, anthropometric and health status. Descriptive analysis and Chi-Square, Mann Whitney, Fishers Exact e T de Student, and Poisson regression analysis were performed (p<0.05). Results: 87.1% of participants (n = 528) performed frequent the breakfast, being more prevalent among participants aged 48.5 years or more (p=0.041). The Poisson regression analysis revealed an association between frequent realization of breakfast with the habit of not smoking (PR=1.45; 95% CI=1.10-1.91), highest number of daily meals (PR=1.15; 95% CI=1.06-1.25), adequate intake of fried foods (PR= 1.12; 95% CI=1.01-1.25), lower intake of dietary lipids (PR=0.78; 95% CI=0.68-0.89) and lower prevalence of overweight (PR=0.85; 95% CI=0.78-0.92). Conclusion: This positive relation found between consumption of breakfast and not smoking, foods adequate intake and nutrients and a healthier weight, indicates the need to emphasize this meal as simple and feasible strategy nutritional counseling to contribute to health promotion and chronic diseases prevention and control in health service