Resumen de Water intake and body water percentage, role of physical activity in university women students
Roberto Ramírez Domínguez, Isabel Bayona Marzo, María Teresa Mingo Gómez, Maria Ángeles Ferrer Pascual, Enrique Márquez Calle, Lucía Luisa Pérez Gallardo
Introduction: Physical activity and proper hydration status have a direct impact on health.
Objective: This work aims to analyze the water intake and hydration status in university women students who present different levels of physical activity.
Method: 57 university women students, age of 21.02 ± 2.45 years were classified according to Ipaq-Short Form in sedentary (n = 10), medium physical activity (n = 37) and high physical activity (n = 10). Water intake was analyzed in each group by a food and beverage intake record during a period of seven days, they were transformed into energy and nutrient intake by Nutriber (version 1.1.1.3r); and water percentage of the total body weight by bioimpedance (Segmental Tanita BF-418). Nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis test was used (SPSS 22.0 for Windows).
Results: Results showed significant differences between sedentary and medium physical activity groups (p <0.05) and between sedentary and high physical activity groups (p<0.05). In both cases the sedentary group shows the higher body water percentage. According to the levels of physical activity, water intake has not shown significant differences among groups.
Conclusions: None of the groups drink the amount of water recommended for their age. Despite this, hydration is compatible with a normal intake and it is higher in the sedentary group than in those doing some physical activity.
