TRENDS OF DIETARY HABITS AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS
Main Authors: | DR. ALI HAIDER RAZA, DR. MARYUM NAVEED, DR. HAIDER SHAHEEN |
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Format: | Article Journal |
Terbitan: |
, 2020
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Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/4392772 |
Daftar Isi:
- Diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight-management reasons. This cross-sectional study was conducted among medical students of different medical colleges. Name, age, gender, routine, and nature of diet were noted on a predefined proforma. All the data was entered and analyzed with SPSS Ver. 23.0. There were 120 medical students in this study. There were 60 males (60%) and 40 females (40%). The mean age of the students was 19.45±0.99 years. Out of 120 medical students, 101 were hostel residents and that they take food from hostel mess. Thirty students said that the hostel mess was not appropriate for them and that they often buy food from outside.