Introduction: dietary habits and physical activity may be different among university students of health programs. Objective: the aim of this study is to identify differences in levels of physical activity and feeding behavior among students of programs of the health area of El Bosque University. Methods: analytical cross-sectional study that involved undergraduate students from first to fourth semester of nursing, optometry, medicine, dentistry and surgical instrumentation programs during August 2017. Through a self-administered survey physical activity (IPAQ-SF) and eating habits (questionnaire of frequency of consumption) were measured. Ji2 and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used for comparisons between programs. Results: 692 subjects participated and 77.7% were women. Breakfast is consumed 85.3% and nursing program has the lowest consumption percentage (80%, p0.0092). Dairy products is the most consumed food group (47.1%), moreover, there is a low consumption of vegetables throughout the population (19.6%) especially in nursing program(15.6% p.074). 51% of the population is physically active, and high levels of physical activity are observed in men (p 0.001), first-year students and medicine program (p <0.05). Conclusions: differences in food intake and physical activity were found between undergraduate programs. Nursing students are more sedentary and in proportion, consume less breakfast than other programs. Medical students have higher percentage of high physical activity.