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

Abstract

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.