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The Impact of Nutritional Quality on the Students’ Health
Aim: To study the nutritional quality and its impact on the health of the students of higher education institutions.
Material and methods: 647 students were interviewed. A questionnaire, which contains 17 questions and is aimed at studying the quality
of students’ nutrition, was created by authors. Experimental (EG, n = 60) and control (CG, n = 60) groups were formed. The EG included the
students whose diet was rational while studying, the CG included the students whose diet was irrational. The level of students’ health was
examined at the end of studying according to the methodology of professor G.L. Apanasenko.
Results: It was found that only 30.6% of students ate 3-4 times a day, 14.4% – twice a day, 49.8% did not follow any dietary regimen, and
7.9% of students would not eat breakfast at al 43.7% of male students and 53.3% of female students did not follow a dietary regimen at
all. A comparative analysis of the physical health of students of EG and CG showed that among both male and female students, the students
whose diet was rational had significantly better (p<0.001) level of health.
Conclusions: It was determined that the majority of students had low nutritional quality while studying: nutrition was irrational, incomplete,
and not varied. This does not contribute to a healthy lifestyle of modern students and can negatively affect the efficiency of their future
professional activities