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LIFESTYLE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY AND NUTRITIONAL HABITS IN A GROUP OF SPECIALISTS IN DIABETES

VIVIANA ELIAN 1, EMMA ADRIANA OZON 2*, YAN COHEN RACHMINOV 3, VALENTIN VARLAS 4, MANUELA GHICA 5

1Department of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, ”Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, National Institute of Diabetes, ”N. C. Paulescu” Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, 5-7 Ion Movilă Street, 020475, Bucharest, Romania
2Department of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy, ”Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020945, Bucharest, Romania
3Central District of Clalit Health Service Rishon Le Zion 75232, Israel
4Department of Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, ”Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Filantropia Clinical Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
5Department of Applied Mathematics and Biostatistics, Faculty of Pharmacy, ”Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 6 Traian Vuia Street, 020945, Bucharest, Romania

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Lifestyle consists of the way a person lives, the behaviour and the actions of daily life. Lifestyle habits have an important influence on physical and mental health. In the last decades, unhealthy lifestyle behaviour has an increasing prevalence worldwide. Embracing healthy lifestyle such as controlled nutritional plan, a higher level of physical activity, adequate quantity and quality of sleep and healthy ways to reduce stress and anxiety is highly associated with the risk reduction for disease development, better mental state, better physical performance and improvement of the general quality of life. The aim of the study is to evaluate the physicians’ physical activity and nutritional habits and their compliance with a healthy lifestyle by completing a short questionnaire. The study group contained 169 diabetologists as participants. 11.24% of the questionnaires were incompletely filled and were excluded from the study. Although being physically active, most of the physicians still believe that their physical activity is insufficient. Most physicians declare having healthy lifestyle habits. They consume all of the food groups, with higher consumption of healthier products such as lean meat, fish, fruits and vegetables.