Investigation of the correlation between eating, life style and obesity status – a case study on the freshman of an universityof an university

• Main Authors: Huang, Hsiu-Feng, 黃秀鳳
• Other Authors: Tsai,Guo-Jane
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/kb294g

碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 食品科學系 === 102 === Obesity factors include family background, dietary contents, dietary habits and living habits. This study was a case study on the freshmen of an university, to investigate the relationship between obesity and associated factors of family factors, dietary contents, dietary habits and living habits by questionnaire. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare, the Body Mass Index(BMI) between 24 to 26.9 kg/m2 is defined as overweight, the BMI greater than (including) 27 kg/m2 is obesity. In this study, overweight and obesity students were classified as obesity group. They were included to obesity populations in the analysis. In this study, there were 1057 students, including 708 boys (67%) and 349 girls (33%). The average height, weight, BMI and waist of the male respectively were 172.32 ± 5.78 cm, 66.9 ± 13.64 kg, 22.51 ± 4.33 kg/m2, 76.09 ± 11.72 cm, they were larger significantly than the female (respectively were 160.73 ± 5.74 cm, 53.66 ± 8.40 kg, 20.78 ± 3.15 kg/m2, 68.47 ± 7.68 cm). The number (percentage)of male and female of obesity respectively was 201 (28%) persons and 51(15%) persons. The obesity proportion of male almost 1 time higher than female (p = 0.000). Personal and family background factors affected students' weight. Father and mother' weight of obesity students was heavier significantly than normal weight students (respectively p = 0.011 and p = 0.010). However, even college students increase dining opportunity of outside, but parents still were the most profound people on the eating habits, and no matter what weight of stundents had the same results. Obesity freshmen had more ideas of losing weight. In the dietary contents, all of the high-calorie foods, "fried chicken" (p = 0.02) and "hot dogs, sausages" (p = 0.02) intaked frequency of obesity students was higher significantly than normal weight stundents. Other kinds of high-calorie foods during two kinds of weight of students had no significant difference. Dietary habits contain"eating frequency", "eating speed" and "favorite food type ". In the "eating frequency", the frequency of eating breakfast every day of freshman (58.4%) was lower than lunch and dinner (82.2% and 86.0%). Although the dinner time(or night snake) of normal weight stundent was later significantly than obesity (p = 0.008), but the sleeping time was also delayed. In the " eating speed ", the meal time of obesity students was faster significantly than normal weight stundent. The proportion of their meal time with less than 10 minutes (10.5%) was greater significantly than normal weight stundents (5.9%). In the "favorite food type", the obesity stundents tend to heavier flavor. It was different significantly (p = 0.000) than normal weight stundents. Their favorite flavor was "stirred and fried", but the normal weight stundents' favorite flavor was "steaming and boiling". Living habits were associated with obesity.The living habits contain "living schedule", "dynamic activities " and " quiet activities". In the "living schedule", although normal weight stundents' sleeping time was later than obesity students,but the total sleeping time was longer significantly than overweight stundents (p = 0.016) . There were 6.3% normal weight stundents had more than nine hours of sleeping time, but overweight stundents just had only 3.2%. In the " quiet activities", the frequency of eating and too lazy to move of obesity stundents was more than normal weight students (p = 0.007).