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KMID : 1134819990280030722
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition
1999 Volume.28 No. 3 p.722 ~ p.731
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Evaluation of Factors Associated with Health and Diet of Preschool Children by Nutritional Status
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Moon Hyun-Kyung
Park Song-Yi
Paik Hee-Young
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to analyze the factors associated with health and diet by nutritional status. The subjects were the children aged 2 to 6. Physicians and nurses measured children′s anthropometries and examined their blood and urine. Interviewers questioned children′s food habits to their mothers. 24-hour recall was done for children with their mother. The nutritional status was classified to ‘underweight’, ‘normal weight’ and ‘overweight’ by weight for height(median±1 S.D.) of the reference population. The number of subjects in each group(under, normal, over) was 25, 130 and 49. Factors including anthropometry and hemoglobin concentration were not significantly different by the nutritional status. The birth weight of children was correlated positively to mothers′ BMI. Z-scores of weight for height were related to the birth weight positively by the analysis of variance. The children of the underweight group used nutritional supplements more frequently than those of normal and overweight group. The nutrient intakes of normal weight group were higher than those of low and overweight group. Particularly, the intakes of energy, carbohydrate and calcium were significantly high among the groups. In terms of number of foods, food groups and dishes consumed per day, the children of the normal weight group ate more diversely than other groups but the differences were not significant. In conclusion, the children of normal weight group had similar characteristics with other groups but had more desirable dietary intakes than other groups in this study. Because the diet of children may be different by the nutritional status, nutrition education for children should be conducted according to the characteristics of each group′s diet.
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KEYWORD
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nutritional status, weight for height, preschool children
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