Students' dietary habits

Helena Vecenane; Andra Fernate

Students' dietary habits

Latvian Academy of Sport Education (LASE)

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Abstract

The World Health Organization (WHO) particularly highlights the actions that need to be taken in order to draw attention to health promoting effects, with particular emphasis on healthy eating and physical activity. The aim of the research is to define University students' dietary habits. Materials and methods. The questionnaire inquired about the dietary habits of students including healthy and unhealthy food variations (from previous day's food intake). For data analysis the traditional programme SPSS 16.0 was employed. The participants of the research: 158 full-time and 52 part-time students of Liepaja University and Riga Stradins University Branch of Liepaja. The results. According to self-assessment of students, 31 % full-time students and 49.9% part-time students have good nutrition on daily basis. But at the same time, our research showed that 43. 6% full-time students and 25 % part-time students have bad dietary habits, 44.9 % full-time students and 51.9% part-time students satisfactory dietary habits, but good nutrition habits have only 11,4% full-time students and 23.1% part-time students. There were no students with very good dietary habits. 39.9% of full-time and 28.8% of part-time students had intentions to use healthier diet in the future.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference
Editors	V. Dišlere
Publisher	Latvia University of Agriculture
Pages	265-271
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-9984-48-135-7
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	7th International Scientific Conference: Rural Environment. Education. Personality (REEP) - Jelgava, Latvia Duration: 7 Feb 2014 → 8 Feb 2014 Conference number: 7 https://llufb.llu.lv/conference/REEP/2014/Latvia-Univ-Agricult-REEP-2014proceedings.pdf

Publication series

Name	RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP)
Number	7
ISSN (Print)	2255-808X

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Conference	7th International Scientific Conference: Rural Environment. Education. Personality (REEP)
Abbreviated title	REEP
Country/Territory	Latvia
City	Jelgava
Period	7/02/14 → 8/02/14
Internet address	https://llufb.llu.lv/conference/REEP/2014/Latvia-Univ-Agricult-REEP-2014proceedings.pdf

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Dietary habits
Healthy/unhealthy diet
Students

Field of Science*

3.3 Health sciences

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3.1. Articles or chapters in proceedings/scientific books indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database

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Vecenane, H., & Fernate, A. (2014). Students' dietary habits. In V. Dišlere (Ed.), RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP): Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference (pp. 265-271). (RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP) ; No. 7). Latvia University of Agriculture. https://llufb.llu.lv/conference/REEP/2014/Latvia-Univ-Agricult-REEP-2014proceedings.pdf

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Vecenane, H & Fernate, A 2014, Students' dietary habits. in V Dišlere (ed.), RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP): Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference. RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP) , no. 7, Latvia University of Agriculture, pp. 265-271, 7th International Scientific Conference: Rural Environment. Education. Personality (REEP), Jelgava, Latvia, 7/02/14. <https://llufb.llu.lv/conference/REEP/2014/Latvia-Univ-Agricult-REEP-2014proceedings.pdf>

Students' dietary habits. / Vecenane, Helena; Fernate, Andra.
RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP): Proceedings of the 7th International Scientific Conference. ed. / V. Dišlere. Latvia University of Agriculture, 2014. p. 265-271 (RURAL ENVIRONMENT. EDUCATION. PERSONALITY. (REEP) ; No. 7).

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