英文摘要 |
Mei Ho University aims to become a health-promoting school and to care about the students’ dietary conditions in school. At present, the dietary imbalance in the Taiwanese population remains serious; such poor dietary habits resulted in metabolic syndromes. Therefore, it is important to understand students’ dietary conditions which are related to students’ health. A retrospective study was conducted by using the 24-hour dietary recall method whereby the students in a nutrition class of Department of food science and nutrition recorded their dietary intake during the past year. The intake of dietary calorie, six kinds of food and dietary fiber were calculated and compared with Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) of the Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Taiwan. The resulted showed that the students’ dietary calorie intake was 65.2 to 82.3 % of DRIs in the population of ages 19 to 30. The average intake of vegetables was 2.5 portions, the average intake of fruits was 0.9 portions, the average intake of low-fat dairy product was 0.9 portions; and the average intake of fat and lipids was 7.3 portions per day. These data indicated that students’ intake of vegetables, fruits, and dairy product was not enough, but their intake of fats and lipid was too much. These dietary habits will affect their health situations (such as metabolic syndrome and colon cancer) in the further. I showed the necessity and importance in promoting healthy dietary education on campus. |