| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 101 === The purpose of this study is to understand the present physical fitness of
vegetarian elementary students in Tainan City. The sampling population of this
research is composed of forth to sixth grade vegetarian students in the
elementary school of Tainan Senior High School in 2011. To research the final
valid samples are 66 (forth-grade students: boys=12, girls=17; fifth-grade
students: boys=14. girls=14; sixth-grade students: boys=3, girls=6). The tool
to examine the result is based on the items listed in the Physical Fitness Passport
The Republic of China, and the data was treated with t test and conclusions are
as following:
1. After the body health measures with those who are vegetarian and
non-vegetarian students in Tainan elementary school, the height of the
vegetarian students are non-differentiation with the 50th percentile of the
national BMI norm. Only the weight of the fifth-grade non-vegetarian boys
achieve the reference standards. And to the part of weight, the weight of those
vegetarian students is lighter. Among the fifth-grade vegetarian girls, they all
achieve the reference standards, besides, the others are non-differentiation.
2. The result is further evaluated, the BMI of those students is criticized
「medium」, power, muscle strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance
are estimated 「Moderate」. The flexibility some of sixth-grade vegetarian boys
and fifth-grade non-vegetarian is 「Need more efforts」. The cardiovascular
endurance of the forth-grade non-vegetarian boys and girls is 「Need more
efforts」. The muscle endurance of the sixth-grade non-vegetarian boys and girls
is 「Excellent」. All of these data reveal the Health-related physical fitness is
within the normal range.
3. The result is further comparison, the body mass index of the fifth-grade girls
and sixth-grade boys is lower than the reference standards, besides, the others
are normal. In power, the fifth-grade girls is better than the reference standards,
besides, the others are normal. In muscle strength and cardiovascular
endurance , the high-grade non-vegetarian students show better results in power
and muscle fitness, but worse in flexibility, and cardiovascular endurance.
As the results of the study, the height and weight of vegetarian students are
non-differentiation with the national BMI norm, that is, it doesn’t have any
negative influence to students’ growing development with three vegetarian
meals or a vegetarian meal a day. Therefore, nowadays parents and teachers
can feel relieved and popularize the vegetarian diet by following the
one-day-one-week or one-day-one-month vegetarian diet policy. The only
important thing is to pay more attention to students’ physical activity
arrangement and the contents of the diet design.
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