Investigation On The Nutritional Status Of The College Students In Hunan Province

In order to assess the nutritional status of college students in our province and get a better understanding of college students’nutrition knowledge, attitude towards nutrition, dietary practice and physical fitness, this paper aims to provide theoretic basis for the research on college students’ nutrition diet model. Taking 1000 college students from 10 different universities in Hunan Province as the research object, using self-designed questionnaires, reviewing nutritional status of college students by using 24h dietary recall, and evaluating College Students’ nutrition knowledge, attitude towards nutrition and dietary practice (KAP) by using anonymous answer on the spot, this paper analyzes the statistics of health check-up for freshman, the difference between X2 test and T test results and Physical Fitness Index and then assesses the nutritional status of college students in Hunan province. Further to the survey, the results show that:1) the dietary structure of university students in Hunan province is extremely unreasonable, energy intake basically can meet the demand, but the energy sources of nutrients is not reasonable, micronutrient intake is low, the structure of protein food source is not reasonable; 2) statistical analysis of survey results shows us that college students’ nutrition knowledge in Hunan province is good with an average score of 41.5872+4.5782. The research objects’dietary practice includes disvalue of breakfast, unfixed dinning time, not fussy about food, eating places mainly to taste, overeating, fast food, a few girls choose to diet; 3) through the investigation and analysis of physique of Hunan Province, most of the normal, underweight and obesity were low, which accounted for only 2.52% of obese students. The countermeasures to improve the dietary nutrition including:firmly implement the "national nutrition bye law", required with the dietitian; increase the nutrition education and publicity; to rectify the school surrounding the diet industry, create a good diet environment; establish and improve the school nutrition catering system, establish a scientific and reasonable dietary pattern, in order to further improve the nutritional status of college students and promote the college students the physical and mental health and comprehensive development.