Comparative study of the physical activity level, nutrition state and abdominal obesity in physical education professors from the University Autonomus of Sinaloa and Huelva University

Abstract

The aim of this work was to compare the prevalence of physical activity level, nutrition state and abdominal obesity in physical education professors from the University Autonomus of Sinaloa (UAS) Mexico and Huelva University (UHU) Spain, 52 professors were studied, in order to classify the physical activity level the International Physical Activity Questionannaire (IPAQ) short version was applied. To determine the nutrition state and abdominal obesity, anthropometric measurements were taken (weight, stature and waist circumference). Resulting whith similar prevalence of high and moderate physical activity, the prevalence of combined overweight and obesity was considerly higher in UAS profesors (90.6%) than UHU professors (37.5%), the same way in the prevalence of abdominal obesity 30.6% to 12.5%. The findings of this study shows subjects physically active, but for other side this study shows in both university professors high prevalence of overweight and obesity even higher than their respective people average country. We can conclude that in these subjects efforts should be made to develop nutritions programs to help stem rates of overweight and obesity.

Keywords

• physical activity
• nutrition state
• abdominal obesity
• physical education professors