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EATING HABITS OF TEACHER CANDIDATES

Vitályos Gábor Áron (1), Dancs Gábor (2), Darvay Sarolta (1)

1) Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education, Department of Natural Sciences, Hungary; 2) Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education, Department of Mathematics, Hungary

Vitályos Gábor Áron, e-mail: vitalyos.aron@tok.elte.hu.

Abstract

Apart from parents, teachers have a determining role in forming students’ attitude to health. Consequently, creating and forming a health attitude that meet modern principles has to have a great emphasis in teacher training. The research includes measuring body composition, evaluating results and consultation of first-year students of primary, pre-school and nursery education. Our aim is to screen students belonging to a risk group because of their nourishment. After investigating the students’ family relationships, we had a questionnaire about their family anamnesis, health status, eating habits and free time activities. Their physical status was examined by the In Body 720 body composition analyzer. The survey sample is 820 female students. With the semi-longitudinal survey we tried to find out whether students belonging to the risk group accepted our advice and changed their lifestyle. Their different physical status would prove that during their second examination, two years after the first one. The health status of the students is estimated, including their self-evaluation about their body shape, their nutritional habits, fitness index, obesity diagnosis, the relationship between parents’ education level and students’ nutritional status, and correlation between parents’ and students’ BMI. The practical relevance of our survey is that the possible positive change in students’ health comportment attitude will have a good effect on the lifestyle of the future generations.

Keywords

BMI, healthy lifestyle, obesity, In Body 720 body composition analyzer

Цит.: Vitályos Gábor Áron, Dancs Gábor, Darvay Sarolta EATING HABITS OF TEACHER CANDIDATES // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 101-101