Nutritional knowledge, food habits and health attitude of Chinese university students--a cross sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We have previously shown that irregular lifestyle of young Japanese female students are significantly related to their desire to be thinner. In the present study, we examined the nutritional knowledge and food habits of Chinese university students and compared them with those of other Asian populations.

Methods

A self-reported questionnaire was administered to 540 students, ranging in age from 19-24 years. Medical students from Beijing University (135 men and 150 women) in Northern China and Kunming Medical College in southern China (95 men and 160 women) participated in this study. The parametric variables were analyzed using the Student's t-test. Chi-square analyses were conducted for non-parametric variables.

Results

Our results showed that 80.5% of stud

SUBMITTER: Sakamaki R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC553986 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature