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objective: to characterize risky eating habits and factors related to eating disorders among nutrition students in the city of rio de janeiro methods: sectional study with a segment of the population pointed out in literature as being at risk of developing eating disorders. the bulimic investigatory test edinburgh (bite) questionnaire, the eating attitudes test (eat-26) questionnaire and a variable which considers the two related tools (nunes et al, 2001) were used. results: one hundred ninety-three female students were studied, being 20.9 years old on the average ㊣ 2 years. a positive result of 14% (ic 95%: 9.4%-20%) in the eat-26 was observed. in the bite advanced symptoms and scores in the serious range were found in 5.7% (ic 95%: 2.9%-10%) and 3.2% (ic 95%: 1.2%-6.9%), respectively. when positive eat-26 results were combined with serious range bite scores and advanced symptoms, positive correlations were found in 64.7% (p %26lt; 0.001) and 36.4% (p %26lt; 0.001), respectively. of the women who showed positive eat-26, 88.5% were within the normal range of the body mass index (bmi) (p %26lt; 0.031). conclusions: one must pay close attention to the tendencies towards eating disorders in the group, since these disorders will be a focus of their professional practice, which could compromise their work in the cases where nutritionists already present syndromes or tendencies towards disorders.
