Abstract

Obesity has often been assessed based on self-reported Body Mass Index (BMI). If the 18-24 age group, known as the transitional period of adulthood, is thought to be university students, their proper nutrition habits have a social significance in terms of their own health. In this study, it was aimed to investigate the relationship between nutritional habits and body mass index (BMI) of 3rd and 4th grade girls in Private University Faculty of Health Sciences Department of Nutrition Diabetic. While study data were evaluated,  variables without normal distribution in the comparison of descriptive statistical methods as well as quantitative data; Mann Whitney U test in two group comparisons; Pearson kikare test and Fisher Freeman Halton test have used in the comparison of  quantitative data. p<0.05 has considered statistically significant. The BMI of the students varies between 16.3 and 25 kg / m2. The mean value was 19.91 ± 2.26 kg / m2. It was observed that 30% of the students were weak and 70% were normal weight. When we look at the girls participating in the research; 53% of the girls did not have breakfast, 40% did not eat lunch, and 7% did not eat dinner. According to these results, it was determined that breakfast meal was the most skipped meal of the day. In this scope; 34% had not woken up to the school because of the late morning wake, 17% had no appetite in the morning, 6% fear of weight gain, 3% do not like breakfast, 2% do not care and 9% do not have breakfast for other reasons. In the answers given by the girls who participated in the research, 92% of the students answered that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and also 91% of the students said that breakfast is improving the performance of the individuals in the school.  According to BMI levels; there was no statistically significant difference between the scores of the daily meal numbers of the students, the distribution of the main meal numbers, the distributions of the break meal numbers, the skipped meal distributions, the scores obtained from the questions about breakfast information, and the points they got about the adverse events during the day if they did not have breakfast (p> 0,05). Also according to what they have in their class, there was no statistically significant difference between the distributions of daily meal numbers of the students, the distributions of the main meal numbers, the distributions of the break meal numbers, the skipped meal distributions and the scores of breakfast related information questions (p> 0,05).). Institutions that mostly serve students need to prepare healthy, high quality, nutritious menus in their meals. At the same way, the students should eat breakfast regularly at breakfast and consume high nutrients for breakfast.

Keywords

  • Social
  • education
  • technology
  • ethics
  • moral
  • cloning
  • synthetic
  • and growth