A survey was carried out to investigate into high school girls´ food intake pattern and their behavior for weight control.
The average height and weight of the subjects were 161㎝ and 52.9㎏, while 53.3% of them usually had breakfast which 83.7% of them had steamed rice and dishes, 64.7% of residue (46.7%) them often skipped breakfast because they didn´t have to eat.
Most of them had lunch which prepared from home at lunch time (75.7%), they choosed foods at first by taste(71.9%), but they almost didn´t consider the nutritional aspects, also they had very small amount of fruits and vegetables.
They had snack more than once a day(93.4%), As snack, they used mainly cookies(39%), Ramyun and Ddukbocki(31.5%), and breads(17.6%). Meal time was shown to be short such as 10 or 20 minutes(40.7%), dinner was thought to be the most important meal(66.9%)
In spite of their weight was standard(56.68%), they thought their style as fatty(48.1%) and they wanted to reduce weight(90.4%).
90.3% of all subjects were interested in weight control and students with standard sizes(52.7%) and/or/(p<0.05) lean weights(27.1%) had concerning about weight control significantly. The motive of attempt to weight control was shown to be effected by mass communication(49.1%) mainly, When they tried to lose their weight, 66.7% of them depended on their own judgement, while only 1.1% asked for the advice of a doctor. The most effective way to control weight was thought to increase the amount of exercise(52.7%) and to control the amount of food (32.2%).
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