Selecting the school lunch children in different educational environment, rural or urban, this survey did the school lunch children's food prefrences and physical standard the results are as follows :
1. The general characteristics of the surveyed ar...
Selecting the school lunch children in different educational environment, rural or urban, this survey did the school lunch children's food prefrences and physical standard the results are as follows :
1. The general characteristics of the surveyed are similiar to each other in urban or rurual, but from the point of the educational degree of their parents, it seems that the graduate parents are significant factors(<.0001).
2. The average physical standards show 140.7cm 34.4kg, and 141.9cm 36.3kg in rurual and urban respectively. With regard to man and woman the difference is significant(<.01) and the physical characteristics of children's growth period is evidently revealed as the girl's superiority in physical standard to boy's.
3. In the obesity index, the underweight group is higher in comparison to obese group and normal group(<.01, <.0001), the family eating habits are to be thought important as the obesity index between children and the rest family showed the correlation(<.001, <.01).
4. The food preferences of school lunch children doesn't seem to have any significant relationship between urban and rurual area, but they show some difference in preference between liked food and disliked.
5. Not only the nutrition perception shows difference between urban and rural area, boy and girl(<.001), but also the parent's educational degree seems to have some close relationship for their children's nutrition(<.001, <.05). Whether Mother has occupation or not, whether family type is extended family or nuclear doesn't have any influence.
To get nutritious food for children and to promote the nutrition perception, this survey leads us to have adequate education for home and the school lunch as well as to develop and execute the action program for the parents, teachers and nutrionist.