Women's meal frequency and nutritional and health profiles

OBJECTIVE: To verify whether meal frequency is associated with the nutritional and health profiles of women attending a health-promoting service. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included users of an Academia da Cidade in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais from August 2009 to December 2011. The following were collected: socioeconomic, demographic, health profile, anthropometric, and dietary data. Meal frequency was given by the self-reported number of daily meals and considered appropriate when >5. Poisson regression with a robust variance was performed with a significance level of 5% (p