LIFESTYLE: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN PRACTITIONERS AND NON-PRACTITIONERS OF BASKETBALL

Resumen

Good eating habits and practice some physical activity contributes to the lifestyle of a person is healthy and, consequently, your life is better. As pointed out by researches of health field. From this, the present study's general objective is to check for possible differences in lifestyle practitioners and non-practicing basketball with boys aged 10 to 15 years, with a total of 78 participants. The comparative research is descriptive, involving 43 athletes and 35 non-athletes, being used as an instrument of collection, the questionnaire on lifestyle, adapted from Nahas, Barros and Francalacci, which includes five dimensions, such as nutrition, physical activity, preventive behavior, relationships and stress management, totaling 15 questions. The result of this research shows that the difference in lifestyle between the two groups is in the areas of nutrition and stress control. Questioned in other dimensions (physical activity, preventive behavior and relationship), basketball practitioners had a better result, which indicates they have a better lifestyle.