The purpose of this study was to analyze health-related habits, weight control experience and body composition of 344 female students visiting nutrition counselling office. Dietary habits of the subjects were assessed by means of interview with questi...
The purpose of this study was to analyze health-related habits, weight control experience and body composition of 344 female students visiting nutrition counselling office. Dietary habits of the subjects were assessed by means of interview with questionnaire and nutrient intakes were evaluated by the simple dictary assessment method. Weight and height were measered to get body mass index(BMI) and waist-hip ratio and their body composition were measured by inbody 3.0.<br/>
The obtained results were as follows:<br/>
1) Among students, 14.5% were exercising on a regularly basis, of which the exercies were walking and gymnastic exercise(22.1%), jogging(14.1%), and rope-skipping(4.7%), 48.4% of students were little drinking and 30.5% were once a week and smokers were 4.1%. 2) 28.3% of students were little having breakfast and 15.1% were once or twice a week. Two thirt of total students were not having breadkfast regularly. Also only 59.6% of students were having dinner everyday, which means many of them were even skipping dinner. The reasons why they were not having bareakfast were because they don't have enough time to eat(66.0%) and for a diet(2.8%) and the reasons for skipping dinner were because they were not hungry(23.0%), for the weight loss(18.2%). It was shown that they would skip dinner rather than breakfast for a weight control. 51.6% of students were taking snack 1~2 times a day and 8.3% were having little snack. 55.4% of students were dinning out once a day and 15.4% more than 2 times a day. 3) 46.7% of students were already experiencing weight contral before visiting the counselling office, 78.5% of students tried on one kind of weight control method, 11.4% on two kinds, and 10.1% on more than three kinds. The method they tried for a weight control most was the one food diet using egg, fruits and beans, which is the most popular among them, and the next were an aerobic exercise(23.6%), a diet tried by a famous entertainer (15.5%), and the fasting (14.5%). 4) The average BMI was 21.2 and the body fat rate was 28.1%. As a result of grouping BMI, 12.8% were underweight, 67.6% normal weight, 11.6% overweight and 8% obesity. Less than standard for the body fat fate were 0.6%, 50.6% standard, 48.8% more than standard. 49.2% of students as normal weight on a BMI were assessed the so-called skinny obesity, 50% of consulted students situated fat intra- abdominally at the umbilical level(WHR>0.8). 5) The energy intake was 76.6±17.8% of RDA and constituent ratio of carbohydrate, fat and protein were 64.2±5.2%, 21.6±3.7 and 14.3±2.3%, respectively, which is little over 20% of recommended ratio of fat. Protein and niacin intake were more than 90% of RDA and riboflavin and vit. C were taken more than 100% of RDA. But Fe intake was 69.4±19.3%. Ca 76.6±23.6%, which were the least constituents. There was not remarkable significance between energy intake and nutrient density based on the groups of underweight, normal weight, overweight and obesity of BMI. 6) It was shown that body fat rate had remarkably significant correlation(p<0.000) with BMI(r=0.760) and WHR(r=0.817) respectively, but body fat rate was more correlated with WHR than with BMI. There was not much significant difference between body fat rate and WHR whether they exercised or not. However BMI was significantly higher in the exercise group because one who showed higher BMI started to exercise since they looked fat in appearance and perceived as they were fat.