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Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption

Medical students experience time constraints and stress in studying, thus, they tend to have an imbalanced diet. This study assessed the calorie intake and factors associated with food consumption among medical students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. T...

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Main Authors: Lwin, Mar Mar, Khin, Cho Aung, Cliffton, Akoi, Khin, Than Yee
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Language:English
Published: Malaysian Society of Applied Biology 2018
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RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
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spelling my.unimas.ir.216732022-03-30T08:29:28Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21673/ Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption Lwin, Mar Mar Khin, Cho Aung Cliffton, Akoi Khin, Than Yee RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine Medical students experience time constraints and stress in studying, thus, they tend to have an imbalanced diet. This study assessed the calorie intake and factors associated with food consumption among medical students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The self-administered questionnaires regarding the knowledge and attitude about food consumption, factors affecting food intake and a 24-hour dietary recall was completed by 101 students. They had overall good knowledge on food consumption, calorie content, hygienic food preparation and balanced diet, 52.5% had normal BMI, 80.2% considered to reduce fast food consumption, and 76.2% consumed food for the tastiness. There was a significant correlation between respondents’ knowledge and total calorie intake (p<0.05). The main factors affecting food consumption are types of food chosen, amount of food taken and frequency of meals consumed. The total calorie intake differs between male and female. Majority of the students had one to two servings of fruit per day. The knowledge plays an important role in total calorie intake. The results suggest that the subjects were more concerned about the taste of the food rather than the cost and nutritional value. Malaysian Society of Applied Biology 2018 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21673/1/CALORIE%20INTAKE.pdf Lwin, Mar Mar and Khin, Cho Aung and Cliffton, Akoi and Khin, Than Yee (2018) Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption. Malaysian Applied Biology Journal, 47 (1). pp. 159-166. ISSN 0126-8643 http://mabjournal.com/
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topic RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
spellingShingle RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine
Lwin, Mar Mar
Khin, Cho Aung
Cliffton, Akoi
Khin, Than Yee
Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption
description Medical students experience time constraints and stress in studying, thus, they tend to have an imbalanced diet. This study assessed the calorie intake and factors associated with food consumption among medical students in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. The self-administered questionnaires regarding the knowledge and attitude about food consumption, factors affecting food intake and a 24-hour dietary recall was completed by 101 students. They had overall good knowledge on food consumption, calorie content, hygienic food preparation and balanced diet, 52.5% had normal BMI, 80.2% considered to reduce fast food consumption, and 76.2% consumed food for the tastiness. There was a significant correlation between respondents’ knowledge and total calorie intake (p<0.05). The main factors affecting food consumption are types of food chosen, amount of food taken and frequency of meals consumed. The total calorie intake differs between male and female. Majority of the students had one to two servings of fruit per day. The knowledge plays an important role in total calorie intake. The results suggest that the subjects were more concerned about the taste of the food rather than the cost and nutritional value.
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author Lwin, Mar Mar
Khin, Cho Aung
Cliffton, Akoi
Khin, Than Yee
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Khin, Cho Aung
Cliffton, Akoi
Khin, Than Yee
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title Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption
title_short Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption
title_full Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption
title_fullStr Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption
title_full_unstemmed Calorie Intake and Factors Associated with Food Consumption
title_sort calorie intake and factors associated with food consumption
publisher Malaysian Society of Applied Biology
publishDate 2018
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/21673/1/CALORIE%20INTAKE.pdf
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