Social aspects role and the behavior of drinking water among students in a private university

Abstract

Lack of consuming drink water can cause many effects on the body. The long term effects of less consuming water dangerous for health. The diseases related to the less consuming water are respiratory tract infections, gastrointestinal disease, urinary infections, cancer, diabetic, kidney disease, and also others metabolic disorders. Those diseases affected to the financial burden due to this situation. It happens because of some factors, many studies mentioned about the behavior of drinking water among adolescents in school affected by some sociodemographic and behavioral factors. This study shows that most of respondents have a bad habit to keep their health kidney it is evident that the majority of respondents have urine color that tends to concentrated which is categorized as unhealthy urine. The limitation of the study was not measure the amount of drink water consuming for each respondents per day.

A Summary of Medical Students' Preference for Healthy Campus Canteen Menus

“…Based on the results, student preferences led to snacks without added sugar for applying healthy canteen menu as many as 483 (74.8%) people with the highest choice of Bottled Mineral Water, Fruit Juices, and High-temperature Milk. The results of this study contradict the study of Sousa et al (2020) and Djannah (2020), which stated that students preferred the consumption of drinks with added sugar, mainly soft drinks, because of the generalization of student knowledge, especially students from the world of health, and for cost savings (Djannah & Matahari, 2020;Sousa et al, 2020).…”

“…College students, especially males, tend to eat fast food, such as pasta and french fries. A different study from the retrospective cohort study by Sousa et al (2020) and the crosssectional study by Djannah (2020) approached students' habits of consuming soft drinks by obtaining consumption of 230-240.6 calories per day or 100 grams per day and sweet drinks for 100 calories per day. This is in stark contrast to the limit value for flavored drink consumption, which is 10% of the total energy requirement, or if calculated, it is 265 kcal for males and 210-225 kcal for females per day.…”