In order to examine how many persons take the health food and what kind of side effects they encountered and the relationship between their life style and the intake of health food, this study was carried out through direct questionnaire to
person
visiting Health Care Center in 4 hospitals in Seoul and Incheon from August 9 to October 15 in 1991. The number of total respondents was 631.
@ES The results are as follows;
@EN 1. Among the 631 respondents, 463 were male (73.4%) and 167 were female(26.5%). Most respondents(81%) were between 3rd and 5th decade. Most female persons were between 20-and 24-year-old.
2. Among the respondents about the experience of taking health food (613), 479(75%) person had the experience of intake and 134(25%) persons had not. The men who were educated in higher grade school or more careful for their health took the
health
food
more frequently.
3. The reasons for the intake of the health food are 'for the prevention of disease'(27.3%), 'for relieving easy fatigability' (21.6%), 'by the motivation of near persons'(9.8%), 'because they had got it by presents'(8.6%), 'because they felt
not
healthy irrespective of normal clinical laboratory results' (7.0%), 'for treating some disease' (3.3%), 'because of the limitation of the modern medicine'(0.6%) and others(4.1%).
4. The discussion with medical personnel about taking the health food was present in fractionary population(79.3%).
5. Most respondents felt that the effects of the health food were 'intermideate' (78.9%). Positive responses about the effect were 14.2%, and negative ones were 6.9%.
6. The ratio of dissatisfied respondents about the effect of health food was 19.3%. The reasons of dissatisfaction were uselessness(41.6%), high cost(25.8%) over-advertisement(19.2%), side effect(2.2%) in order of frequency.
7. Among 479 respondents who had took heaqlth food, 20 repondents(4.2%) experienced side effect of health food. They experienced gastrointestinal disturbance in 10 cases, dermatologic problems in 8 cases, fever in 1 case and dizziness in 1 case.
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