[Dietary errors of junior high school girls and the risk of disorders of dietary origin].
The aim of the study was to investigate the dietary habits and hazards ensuing from poor nutrition among junior high schoolgirls. The research encompassed 100 randomly chosen girls at the age of 15, in the third class of junior high school. The research tool was an anonymous questionnaire. Girls with proper body weight constituted 74%, whereas 26% were underweight. The surveyed girls made many dietary errors, such as long breaks between meals, not having the supper eating the last meal too late. 39% did not accept their appearance and 44% applied slimming diet earlier. The vast majority of the pupils (88%) gave their attention to the media promoting a very thin figure. In certain conditions, such behaviour can lead to disorders of dietary origin.
Medrela-Kuder
Ewa
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Zakład Higieny i Promocji Zdrowia, Akademia Wychowania Fizycznego w Krakowie. ewa.medrela@awf.krakow.pl
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D017195:Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D001828:Body Image; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008402:Mass Media; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D012938:Social Perception; D013240:Stereotyping; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013851:Thinness / Q000453:epidemiology