[Dietary habits of apparently healthy boys and hospitalized adults]

We required into the nutritional habits of adolescents--presumably in good health--and of hospitalized adults. We observed that caloric excesses, through equally distributed in protides, carbohydrates and lipids, might be negative factors in young people who practise no sports; taking into account that their diet was similar to the diet of that patients suffering from metabolic and cardiovascular diseases, used to eat when they were young.