2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Effects of dietary education by parents in the home in childhood on breakfast eating habits in young adults

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22700779
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research Institution	National Institute of Health and Nutrition
Principal Investigator	NAKADE Makiko 独立行政法人国立健康・栄養研究所, 栄養疫学研究部, 研究員 (80508185)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2011
Keywords	食教育 / 朝食欠食 / 大学生
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study was to examine the factors related to breakfast skipping in university students. As a result, more male and female students living alone skipped breakfast. Also, more female students who were smoker, going to bed after 1 am, who think skipping breakfast harmless, eating snacks after dinner and her mother was breakfast skipper skipped breakfast. On the other hand, less female students having a part-time job, eating snacks between lunch and dinner, her mother's educational background was above junior collage graduate or technical collage, her mother had a part-time job and her mother practiced dietary education when the student was a child(e. g. mother discussed about nutrients in food with her child, mother showed her child she enjoyed eating healthy foods) skipped breakfast. Our study revealed breakfast skipping was related to unhealthy lifestyle, attitude about breakfast eating and mothers 'breakfast skipping. And mothers' dietary education in childhood may prevent the students from breakfast skipping.

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