Effect of food habit on the nutritional status of the female university students (original) (raw)
2021, International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Growth Evaluation
Nutrition and food intake are closely related to nutritional status and health of an individual. The university students are generally occupied with academic work, games and are under emotional stress which coupled with unbalanced diets, results in poor health and nutrition. Different researches indicate that there are several factors which affects the nutritional status of the students. Among those factors, food habit is a major one. The food habits are formed by attitudes, prejudices and taboos practiced in early days or the life. Thus, this study was conducted to assess the effect of food habit on the nutritional status of the female university students. A non-interventional descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 201 selected female university students. The students were selected randomly for the study. Respondent's food behavior shows that more than one-third of the respondents like fast food. The nutritional status of the respondents shows that nearly 20% of total respondents were either overweight or obese. Significant association was found among food type and frequency of meal with nutritional status. The findings show that there is significant association among food type and frequency of meal with nutritional status of the female university students. Thus, this study recommends conducting similar type of study with larger sample size to generalize the findings.
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