Nutritional status and feeding habits of college of a northern university of Rio Grande do Sul ABSTRACTThe objective of this research was to identify the relationship between nutritional status and feeding habits and physical activity of young colleges. The experimental subjects were young academics aged between 17 a 24 years-old, students from various undergraduate courses UFSM of Palmeira das Missões/RS, which underwent anthropometric measurements and completed a questionnaire about their habits. The results observed in the current study reveal that the studied sample has a considerable number of individuals with inadequate body constitution, 26.4% of the study population was the body mass index (BMI) was above the recommended, and is 30.19% with the percentage body fat rated as below average (worse than average), bad and very bad . Additonally, have unhealthy eating habits, lack of physical activity practice and routinely ingests alcohol. The present data are noteworthy, because the principle of developing of many chronic diseases are the result of bad habits and accumulation of excessive fat.