Objective -The consensus among specialists is that cardiovascular diseases are multifactorial in origin, resulting from socalled risk factors 1 . Once risk factors are understood to be causal agents resulting in a predisposition towards heart diseases, monitoring of these risk factors aids in the identification of signals that, if modified, may attenuate or even reverse the evolution of heart diseases.Compromising levels of plasma lipids-lipoproteins, high arterial pressure, and excessive fat/body weight ratios are considered biological risk factors of major significance in cardiovascular disease. These factors do not act alone but as a whole, causing an exponential rise in the possibility of cardiovascular accidents.Physical activity and appropriate dietary habits are considered major mechanisms for protection from the surge and progression of risk factors that cause a predisposition towards cardiovascular disease 2-6 . Therefore, differences regarding everyday performance of physical activity, levels of cardiorespiratory fitness, and dietary content have been frequently used in attempts to explain variations in the prevalence of cardiovascular disease in different population groups [7][8][9][10] .Incentives to increase physical activity and use of an adequately balanced dietary regime have played a significant role in various programs aimed at the prevention and control of heart diseases. Yet, although capable of influencing risk factors by a multiplicity of interacting metabolic, functional, and morphologic adaptations, the relative contributions of effective physical activity, cardiorespiratory fitness, and diet on risk factor variability ave not been clearly defined. Thus, studies aimed at the evaluation of the extent of these influences on specific segments of different populations are still required. It is expected that such a search will dentify, in a more explicit manner, preventive and therapeutic measures associated with cardiovascular diseases.The objective of the study was to search for an explanation for variations observed in information associated with biological risk factors that cause a predisposition