A survey on the state of dietary habit, degree of obesity, viewpoint about body shape, BMI calculated from subjcts' height and weight, amount of body fat measured by body fat computer and viewponit about diet food and drug for 196 female university st...
A survey on the state of dietary habit, degree of obesity, viewpoint about body shape, BMI calculated from subjcts' height and weight, amount of body fat measured by body fat computer and viewponit about diet food and drug for 196 female university students was undertaken. The results are as follows : (1) In response to the question about activity frequency, 38.8% and 27.6% of the subjects answered as "less than once per month" and "1 or 2 times per week" , respectively. In case of activity intensity, 59.2% of the subjects answered as "moderate aerobic activity". Activity time of 32.1% and 29.1% of the subjects was "under 10 minutes" and "10-20 minutes", respectively. Activity level of 54.1% and 43.9% of the subjects was "light" and "moderate", respectively. (2) Distribution of measured body fat showed that 51.0% of the subjects were in the range of "30-35%" and 27.0% of the subjects were in the range of "25-30%". The average value of 196 subjects was 31.03%. In response to the question about body shape, 43.4%, 41.3%, 9.7% and 5.6% of the subjects answered as "plump", "normal", "obese" and "thin", respectively. However, BMI calulated from subjects' height and weight showed that 1.0% of the subjects were "obesity", 0.5% were "overweight", 41.8% were "normal" , and 56.6% were "underweight". (3) The results of fitness obtained from body fat & fitness computer showed that fitness of 68.4% of the subjects were "very poor" and that of 25.0% were "poor". The results of longevity showed that longivity of 69.4% of the subjects were "good" and that of 24.0% were "excellent". (4) 11.7% of the subjects had experience of diet food or drug intake. 43.5% of the taken subjects had effect only during taking period, 34.8% had no effect, and 13.0% had some side effect.