FOOD BEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDE TOWARDS NUTRITIONAL KNOWLEDGE IN PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN
Journal Title: New Medicine - Year 2009, Vol 12, Issue 1
Abstract
[b]Aim[/b].The aim of this study was to assess food behaviour and attitude towards nutritional knowledge in premenopausal women.[b]Material and methods[/b]. Questionnaires on food behaviour and attitude towards nutritional knowledge were filled in by 60 women aged 44 to 50 years who lived in Dzierżoniów and worked as clerks in the Town Council and Internal Revenue. The questions concerned eating meals, food habits, frequency of eating selected foodstuffs, avoiding foodstuffs and dishes, as well as women's opinions of their own diet and their attitude towards nutritional knowledge. Statistical analysis was carried out by means of the SPSS 12.0 PL for Windows computer program. The studied population was divided according to educational status.[b]Results[/b]. Educational status had a statistically significant influence on frequency of preparing meals on one's own, frequency of consuming milk and dairy products, and on avoiding cereals and cereal products, poultry, eggs and alcohol.[b]Conclusions[/b]. Food habits of women with higher education were more favourable with respect to frequency of consuming milk and dairy products as well as avoiding eggs and alcohol in their diets, while food habits of women with secondary education were more desirable in terms of avoiding cereals and cereal products, and poultry. In most of the studied premenopausal women inadequate food habits were observed, including too long intervals between meals, too low frequency of eating wholemeal bread, vegetables, fruit, milk and dairy products, and fish, along with too high frequency of eating meat and poultry. A nutrition education programme for women of premenopausal age should be worked out and implemented.
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Sylwia Merkiel, Wojciech Chalcarz
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