Ortorexia e vigorexia : avaliação de comportamento de risco em estudantes de educação física e nutrição.

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, two new behavioral concepts have been studied, orthorexia that is related to extreme care with the intake of healthy and pure foods, and vigorexia to a concern for the constant search of the definition of the muscles and vigorous decrease of the percentage of body fat. Objective: To investigate the prevalence of risk behavior for orthorexia and vigorexia in university students in the course of nutrition and physical education, relating to the nutritional status, sex, course and semester of the course. Materials and methods: Transversal research, students of both sexes enrolled in physical education and nutrition courses were included. The nutritional status was evaluated by the body mass index (BMI), by weight and height, to evaluate the risk of developing orthorexia using the Orto 15 instrument and to evaluate the risk of developing vigorexia, the EDS-R questionnaire was used. Results: Of the 200 participants, 87.5% presented orthorexia risk, being 61% female, 45% of the nutrition course and 56% in eutrophy. The symptoms of exercise dependence were presented in 33.5% of the students with greater representativeness in the students of the physical education course. Conclusion: There was a high prevalence of risk behavior for orthorexia, predominantly in the course of nutrition and among females. The risk of exercise dependence was not present in any of the individuals, but presented symptoms of exercise dependence.