Abstract
Unhealthy dietary habits are related to diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and increased obesity risk over the past decades. It’s mainly due to the dietary factors and lack of physical activities among students. Unhealthy food eating habits and lack of food knowledge and health products leads to severe health problems in the young generation. They prefer food based on their taste, look especially in their psychological point of view not based on their healthy aspects. They often prefer outside foods especially from hotels and local food shops this may affect their immunity and increase the risk of various disease. The main objective of the present study was to find out the awareness on healthy dietary habits among prospective teachers in Tirunelveli district. Survey method was adopted by the investigators to conduct this study. The sample consists of 250 prospective teachers in Tirunelveli District. Healthy Dietary Habits Awareness Scale was developed by Maria Saroja, M and Michael Jeya Priya, E (2020) has been used for collecting data. Mean, SD, ‘t’- test and ꭓ2 was used for analysis the data. The investigators found that i) there is significant difference between rural and urban, nuclear and joint family prospective teachers in their awareness on the healthy dietary habits (ii) there is no significant difference between girls and co-education prospective teachers in their awareness on the healthy dietary habits (iii) there is no significant association between prospective teachers in their awareness on the healthy dietary habits with reference to the father’s educational qualification and mothers educational qualification.
Highlights
Dietary habits are the food choices preferred by persons in their daily life
Dietary habits established in childhood often carry into adulthood, so teaching children how to eat healthy at a young age will help them stay healthy throughout their life. (Adonova.A.2014) The link between good nutrition and healthy weight, reduced chronic disease risk, and overall health is too important to ignore
There is no significant difference between prospective teachers in their awareness on healthy dietary habits with reference to the following background variables. (i)Gender (ii)Locality of residence (iii)Nature of college (iv)Type of family (v)Medium of Instruction There is no significant difference among prospective teachers in their healthy dietary habits with reference to father’s and mother’s educational qualification
Summary
Dietary habits are the food choices preferred by persons in their daily life. Dietary habits and choices play a significant role in the quality of life, health and longevity ( Rayar & Davies 2015) Good nutrition is an important part of leading a healthy lifestyle. Diet can help to reach and maintain a healthy weight, reduce risk of chronic diseases (like heart disease and cancer), and promote overall health.(Ngozi.M. et al.,2017) These include heart disease, hypertension (high blood pressure), type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, and certain types of cancer. The risk factors for adult chronic diseases, like hypertension and type 2 diabetes, are increasingly seen in younger ages, often a result of unhealthy eating habits and increased weight gain. (Adonova.A.2014) The link between good nutrition and healthy weight, reduced chronic disease risk, and overall health is too important to ignore. It’s a need of an hour to increase healthy dietary awareness among prospective teachers
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