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- Title
RELATIONS BETWEEN BODY BUILD AND FOODSTUFFS CONSUMPTION IN FEMALE STUDENTS (AGED 17-23 YEARS) OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TARTU.
- Authors
Peterson, Jana; Koskel, Säde
- Abstract
By means of a questionnaire, we studied foodstuffs consumption habits in 331 female students aged 17-23 years. The questionnaire included nine groups of foodstuffs (131 products in total), which the subjects ate daily, often (2-3 times a week) or sometimes (1-2 times a week). All the students were measured anthropometrically (37 basic measurements and 12 skinfolds from which 7 body composition characteristics were calculated). To systematize the anthropometric data, a 5 SD classification was used with the following classes: (1) small height -- small weight, (2) medium height -- medium weight, (3) big height -- big weight, (4) pycnomorphs (big weight -- small height), (5) leptomorphs (small weight -- big height). The detailed study of foodstuffs consumption was conducted in the same classes into which the subjects had been placed according to their anthropometric data. Absolute number and percentage of consumers of each product was found; for statistical comparison between classes z-test was applied. In two thirds of products, the frequency of consumption differed essentially between classes. Leptomorphs who formed the largest class also consumed the greatest number of products most often. An interesting fact was that the consumption of many foodstuffs by the tallest and heaviest girls in class 3 was lower than that by the smallest girls in class 1, although the difference was not statistically significant. The systematically different frequency of consumption by different body types (morphotypes) may be caused by metabolic differences due to differences in constitution.
- Subjects
FOOD habits; WOMEN; SOMATOTYPES; STATURE; BODY weight; METABOLISM; PHYSICAL anthropology
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2006, Vol 15, p150
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article