Dietary Patterns of Female University Students: With Nutrition Education

Strawson, Cynthia; Bell, Rhonda C.; Downs, Shauna; Farmer, Anna; Olstad, Dana Lee; Willows, Noreen D.

doi:10.3148/74.3.2013.138

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“…Yet, other studies found that both genders had low intake of fruits and vegetables [17,40]. Studies of females only also found low intake of fruits and vegetables by most, and the need to improve diet quality [24,31,36,41].…”

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Food intake of university students

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A B S T R A C TThis narrative literature review aimed to analyze the results of studies on the food intake of university students. A literature search was conducted in July 2014 and updated in July 2016 in the Scopus, MedLine/PubMed, and SciELO databases, using descriptors related to university students and food intake in English and Portuguese. Overall, 37 studies that analyzed university students' food intake were included in this review, eight of which were conducted in Brazil. The results demonstrated that most university students have unhealthy eating behaviors, such as high intake of fast foods, snacks, sweets, soft drinks, and alcoholic beverages, and low intake of fruits, vegetables, fish, whole grains, and legumes. Undergraduate students of health sciences, such as nursing, nutrition, and medicine, did not have healthier diets. University students' food intake was characterized as unhealthy, regardless of undergraduate program or sex, especially among students who left the parents' home and became responsible for their own food. Therefore, there is a need of developing public policies that promote healthy eating habits among students, such as interventions to change their eating habits and increase their access to healthy foods at the university environment.Keywords: Eating. Healthy diet. Public policies. Students. Universities. R E S U M O

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“…Some studies report that women have healthier eating habits than men [38,51], but others have found no differences between men and women [17,40,48]. Still, regardless of sex, university students' intake of fruits and vegetables remains low [17,24,31,36,40,41,47,51].…”

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“…Dietary patterns of 36 female students from the University of Alberta, who had completed at least one nutrition course, were compared with the patterns proposed by Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide (EWCFG) or by the Traditional Healthy Mediterranean Diet Pyramid, using the MDQIS . Results revealed that no student consumed the MD's minimum number of portions of legumes, seeds, and nuts, of olive oil or whole grains.…”

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“…Nutrition education alone may be insufficient to ensure optimal dietary patterns among female university students. The methodology reported in this study presented a novelty in assessing whether dietary patterns resemble MD or EWCFG …”

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Evaluating Mediterranean diet adherence in university student populations: Does this dietary pattern affect students' academic performance and mental health?

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Summary Adherence to a healthy diet such as Mediterranean Diet (MD) may exert beneficial effects in university students, promoting their academic performance and quality of life, as well as their mental and physical health status. In this aspect, the present study aimed to critically analyze the current epidemiological evidence concerning MD adherence of university students' populations. PubMed database was comprehensively searched, using relative keywords. Students' dietary habits are moving away from MD guidelines towards unhealthy eating patterns, especially for those living away from home and even for students with a Mediterranean country origin. Most of the available studies have documented that poorer students' health status was associated with lower MD adherence. Higher MD adherence was correlated with lower depression risk, while higher perceived stress score with lower fruit and vegetables intake. The access of students to information and knowledge provided by courses and lectures did not effectively enhance their compliance to MD. Alarmingly enough, the majority of students, even from medical and nutritional university departments, showed inadequate knowledge on healthy eating habits. Due to the influence of diet on the quality of life and the mental and physical health of students, it is crucial to redirect research focus on this important aspect.

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“…Despite initiatives like the CFG, obesity rates in Canada remain high and consumption of healthy foods like vegetables and fruit appears to have declined (Statistics Canada, 2015). Even though the CFG is intended to be only one among many approaches to addressing the complex problem of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases, low compliance rates with the CFG suggest its role has been minimal (Allen, Taylor, Rozwadowski, Boyko, & Blackburn, 2011;Fowler, Evers, & Campbell, 2012;Johnson-Down & Egeland, 2010;Rossiter, Evers, & Pender, 2012;Strawson et al, 2013). Mathe et al (2015) demonstrated that compliance with the CFG is low despite the fact that many Canadians are aware of the CFG and its specific dietary recommendations, while Abramovitch et al (2012) demonstrated that Canadians' misperceptions of some aspects of the CFG, namely, the serving sizes, may actually result in overconsumption of food.…”

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Digesting Data: The Social and Ideological Actions of Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide

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Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide (CFG), Canada's official dietary guidelines, is designed to address high rates of obesity and diet-related chronic diseases in Canada. This dissertation reports on a qualitative study of the social and ideological actions that the CFG performs. The study draws on concepts from Rhetorical Genre Studies, Science and Technology Studies, and Multimodal Interactional Analysis, and applies them in the analysis of interviews with key informants involved with the latest revision of the CFG and registered dietitians (RDs) working with vulnerable populations, as well as in a rhetorical and multimodal analysis of the guidelines. The findings of the analyses suggest that the CFG relies heavily on the representations typically reserved for scientific evidence from nutrition science, which focus on nutrients rather than on food. In the context of the CFG, these typical scientific representations are used for non-scientific audiences or in non-scientific situations, that is, cease to be scientific and become scientistic. The scientistic representations create rhetorical complexities, such as layers of rhetorical action (rhetorical laminations), and contribute to multiple rhetorical failures of the CFG. The scientistic representations in the CFG and the rhetorical failures they produce influence how RDs conceptualize nutrition, and dominate, rather than facilitate, discussions about healthy eating. As a result, RDs develop new discursive activities whereby they have to rely on additional resources to translate the scientistic representations for people and apply the CFG to their lives. Overall, the study suggests that the CFG, instead of an enabling resource, serves as a limiting document: it limits who can make healthier food choices and iii how such choices can be made. The study indicates that the CFG, as a rhetorical failure, has not achieved its intended social and ideological goals, or, in other words, has written itself out of usefulness. iv

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Dietary Patterns of Female University Students: With Nutrition Education

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Food intake of university students

Food intake of university students

Evaluating Mediterranean diet adherence in university student populations: Does this dietary pattern affect students' academic performance and mental health?

Digesting Data: The Social and Ideological Actions of Eating Well with Canada's Food Guide

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