Nutritional status and dietary behaviors among college students

Objective To explore nutrition status and dietary behaviors among college students for the miprovement of the irnutritional health.Methods Questionnaires were distributed to 871 college students from wuhan Polytechnic University to collect in formation on their nutritional status and dietary behaviors.The students were divided into different groups according to their home town.Body mass index was used to evaluate students nutritional condition.Results Among the students 20.1%(175)were malnutrition,and 0.7%(6)were fat.There were 13.5% of male(49)and 24.8% of female(26)were malnutrition.The ratio of malnutrition in female college students was significantly higher than that of in male college students.There were significant differences between students with different home town and different gender in dietary speed,food structure,and monthly food consumption.The result of factor analysis showed that the contridution of the first three factors was up to 71% and the first three factors played the most important roles in weekly fruit consumption,monthly food consumption,and weekly milk consum ption.Conclusion The main reasons for nutrition mibalance among college students are ecomomical lmiitation and nutritional know ledge.The education about nutrition and theimprovement of food quality among college suudents should be streng thened to miprove nutritional health of college students.