Abstract
Many investigations have shown that unbalanced diet and un-guided intake of nutritional supplements have little effect on helping athletes' body restoration. This study has investigated the problems existed in the basic diet by providing nutritional KAP questionnaire to high-level university athletes in Hunan and using a 24-h retrospective analysis on the athlete's daily routine diet and additional diet.
Highlights
In recent years, problems concerning food safety frequently occurred
In order to guarantee college athletes’ food safety, it’s imperative to enhance the awareness of college teachers, students and diner staff so that they can protect students’ rightful interest and their own health
This study, based on the questionnaire survey conducted on some college students and diner staff concerning their food safety knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, analyzes these factors’ impact on food security in universities so as to lay the foundation for long-term college food safety management mechanism (Cheftel, 2005)
Summary
Problems concerning food safety frequently occurred. In some universities, facilities in the cafeterias are outdated and the administrators of those cafeterias did not pay enough attention to food safety for lack of awareness. A special group of university students, suffer from long-term basis of arduous daily training and insufficient and unbalanced nutrition, which is mostly due to lack of nutrition knowledge as well as unbalanced dietary pattern (Sondik et al, 2010). Survey of college food safety and college students’ dietary nutrition has been conducted under the KAP (Knowledge-Attitude-Practice) pattern (Popkin, 2006). For college teachers and students, their food safety knowledge and attitude have immediate impact on their choices of food and on maintaining health. This study, based on the questionnaire survey conducted on some college students and diner staff concerning their food safety knowledge, attitudes and behaviors, analyzes these factors’ impact on food security in universities so as to lay the foundation for long-term college food safety management mechanism (Cheftel, 2005). There are many unreasonable dietary behaviors, such as ingesting homogeneous type of food for breakfast, choosing snacks for extra meal, or choosing food according to athlete’s own preference and eating heavily
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