Quality of diet of wheelchair basketball players before and after a nutritional intervention
International Journal of Development Research
Quality of diet of wheelchair basketball players before and after a nutritional intervention
Received 19th November, 2019; Received in revised form 11th December, 2019; Accepted 21st January, 2020; Published online 27th February, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Kelen Cristina Estavanatede Castro. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is a quantitative quasi-experimental study with 11 male wheelchair basketball players aged between 18 and 55 years (average of 36.8 ± 9.9 years) aiming to evaluate their quality of the diet before and after a nutritional intervention. We assessed theirbody composition by measuring body mass, height, waist circumference, skinfold thickness and body fat percentage of each player. To evaluate their eating habits, three dietary records were made, considering a sports training day, a normal day and a weekend day. We used the Brazilian Healthy Eating Index Revised, consisting of 12 components, for the dietary evaluation. During the six-month period, we delivered lectures on healthy eating, as well as individualized nutritional guidance following good eating concepts and guidelines. After the nutritional intervention there was a significant improvement (p=0.0429) in the overall quality of the diet, mainly due to the higher consumption of vegetables and fruits, as well as a decrease in the intake of saturated fat, oils and added sugar.
