Nutritional Behavior of Female Students of School of Paramedical and Health in Zanjan

Abstract

Proper and useful nutrition is one of the important, essential and vital factors in providing individuals, family and society health and safety. Suitable food provides movement and activity, satisfaction, vitality and ability to fight with the health problems as well as the health of the next generations [1, 2]. There are different food patterns between people at different levels of socioeconomic status, races, societies and cultures, and the socioeconomic development of any society is directly related to their nutritional behaviors [3]. Prevalence of malnutrition, lack of diversity in dietary patterns and the limited nutrition to consume of foodstuffs is very significant in Iran, as the presence of micronutrient deficiencies such as iron, iodine, calcium and vitamins deficiencies is seen in about Journal of Human, Environment and Health Promotion Journal homepage: www.zums.ac.ir/jhehp Background: Proper nutrition is one of the important, essential and vital factors in providing individuals, family and society health and safety. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nutritional behaviors of girl students in the school of paramedical and health of Zanjan University of medical sciences, Zanjan, Iran. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted during the winter and spring of 2016. Throughout all girl students in the school 196 students was selected randomly. A researcher made questionnaire was used for data collection. Results: As nutritional behavior only 48% of students had breakfast every day and three main serving was daily schedule in 52% of students. At least 13.8% of them ate fast foods once a week. 17.4% of students ate cheeps, puff and snacks as routine. Just 23.5% of them never drank carbonated drink. Different herbal tea was in daily nutrition of 3.6%. Conclusion: Due to the mentioned results and some wrong behavior and nutritional loss in the students, it seems important to designing suitable training programs to improve nutritional behaviors and avoiding from use of fast foods, poor quality food and in general, providing a healthy nutrition behavior for students is essential.

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“…Foods with high energy density contain a large amount of energy per gram of food weight. Consumption of foods with high energy density will increase energy intake and body fat to increase the risk of obesity [8]. According to the Indonesian Nutritional Adequacy Rate, the results showed that only three students had excessive food intake, but 15 people were overweight, and 27 were obese.…”