Eating habits with uniform food preferences and increased energy intake could contribute to body fat gain. Adequacy in diet and body self- evaluation, recognition of unhealthy nutrition patterns should stimulate appropriate corrective activity. The aim of present study was to detect whether energy intake, food diversity and body mass corrective modification differ among both genders in students with low, normal and high body fat percent. The current investigation involved 737 students of Riga Stradiņ University in 18 – 49 age range. Dietary behaviour was determined using self- administered questionnaire. Body fat percent was determined with Tanita MC-180 bioimpedance analysator (Tanita, Japan). Results showed that 39% of females and 21% of males considered that they eat too much. In the group of high fat percent this answer was more common than in groups of normal or low fat percent. 25% of males and 38% of females agreed that they restrict food intake. Despite there were no significant differences in normalized energy intake and food diversity indexes between student groups of low, normal and high fat percent, females were prone to lower caloric intake than males. Females more frequently admit that they eat too much and are more tended to restrict food intake than males. Students in high fat percent group more frequently admitted eating to much and their corrective behaviour was more associated with restriction of eaten food amount rather than diminishing of energy intake and increasing food diversity.