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Introduction: The body image dissatisfaction arise when the person have feelings of self negation with his body when do comparisons with other people. Objective: study assessed the prevalence of dissatisfaction with body image and associated, in undergraduate students of nutrition. Methods: Cross-sectional study. The variables were collected through a online form. We collected data on body dissatisfaction using the scale of silhouettes, sociodemographic variables (gender, age, course period, marital status, who lives and family income), nutritional status (Body-BMI Mass Index) and lifestyle (physical activity, alcohol cosumo, number daily meals and consumption of fruits, vegetables and beans). Results: A total of 133 university students. The prevalence of students dissatisfied for thinness was 41.1% and dissatisfied by being overweight was 24.1%. Factors that show associated with dissatisfaction of body image for thinness was the nutritional status (p = 0.002) and the factors associated with dissatisfaction overweight were nutritional status (p = 0.027) and age (p = 0.04). Conclusion: It is observed considerable prevalence of body dissatisfaction among the analyzed students and is also observed that the age and the nutritional status has to be associated body image dissatisfaction, showing the importance to promove actions with related themes a aesthetics during the undergraduate course.

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