Community Based Survey on Young Adults About the Irregularity in their Food Habit
Hardik Patel, T. Chakraborty*, M. Baidya, S Chauhan, Devang Patel and K Pancholi.
Krupanidhi College of Pharmacy, Chikkabellandur, Carmelram Post, Bangalore - 560 035, India.
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to know about the irregularity in their food habit which effectively infected the young student population of age between 16-20 years. METHODS The study was conducted on December - January 2009-10 on questionnaire-based survey in some colleges of Bangalore where the people form all over India studies. Total number of volunteers (male and female) was One fifty one (151). RESULTS The percentage population who don’t have regular breakfast is 44%, lunch is 3.68%, and evening food is 17.03%. They have given the basic reasons behind their irregularity of food habits were late wake up (71.52%), early college timing (28.47%), not hungry (43.69%) The present survey also provide us the information about diseases due to irregular food habit like Pimples (45%), stomach pain (29%), Acidity (19%) , constipation (16%) , and loose motion (5.3%). CONCLUSION From the above data we can conclude that majority of young student community is not following healthy food habit which may strongly effect their future health. Today’s minor symptoms may be tomorrow’s major disease. Hence, there is a need to educate the youth regarding healthy food habits.
Keywords:food habit; young college student; irregularity
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