Abstract
Present study compared disturbed eating attitudes among male and female university students. For which it as postulated that female university students would have more disturbed eating attitudes as compare to male students. For that reason 200 males and 200 female university students from various universities of Karachi were incorporated in the study. Their age ranged from 19 to 25. Participants after verbal and written covenantfrom the heads of their institution were asked to fill the respondents’ profile form to gather the participant’s demographic information, followed by Eating Attitude Test (EAT-26) which was used to know ones disturbed eating ways. For statistical evaluation t-test was applied, which specified that male university students experience more disturbed eating attitudes compare to female learners. This clears that distressed eating attempts are not limited to females, but is now affecting males as well. Thus to avert its budding prevalence, teaching institutions should supervise its amassed risks in their students and stimulate them to healthy lines of eating.
Highlights
Whereas, disturbed eating approach is defined as an eating behavior that does not permit the diagnosis of eating disorder
Findings of the present study showed overall problematic eating approaches in (n=108, 27.0%) students and no problematic eating approach in (n=292, 73.0%) students
It can be concluded from the result of current study that male undergraduates were found to be more prone towards disturbed eating approaches as compared to female undergraduates
Summary
Eating attitude can be defined as person’s behavior, thought and feeling to nutritive stuff. Whereas, disturbed eating approach is defined as an eating behavior that does not permit the diagnosis of eating disorder. Further with regards to carrying disruptive eating practices, variety of unhealthy eating styles may be listed including eating to fill the emotional emptiness, habitual eating actions, external style of eating (you see it, you eat it), eating for pleasure, purging out, depending self completely on pills.3Problematic eating attempts together in undergraduate male and female population nowadays have become an imperative debate world widely. In a search there was (75%)Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 20, 2011:196–205. 3 Chan MF, Ho A, Day MC. Eating attitude can be defined as person’s behavior, thought and feeling to nutritive stuff.. Whereas, disturbed eating approach is defined as an eating behavior that does not permit the diagnosis of eating disorder.. Further with regards to carrying disruptive eating practices, variety of unhealthy eating styles may be listed including eating to fill the emotional emptiness, habitual eating actions, external style of eating (you see it, you eat it), eating for pleasure, purging out, depending self completely on pills.. Problematic eating attempts together in undergraduate male and female population nowadays have become an imperative debate world widely.. Asia Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 20, 2011:196–205. Investigating the knowledge, attitudes and practice patterns of operating room staff towards standard and transmission-based precautions: results of a cluster analysis. 4 Madanat, Lindsay and Campbell, “Young urban women and the nutrition transition in Jordan”, Public Health
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