Identifikasi Status Gizi Dan Kebiasaan Makan Atlet Usia Remaja Pada Masa Pendemi Covid-19

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of growth that has special nutritional needs to support daily activities and growth. Likewise for an athlete, the main problem that is often encountered by national athletes is lack of stamina and endurance. The fatigue factor followed by a slow body recovery process can reduce the athlete’s performance. One of the things that can affect this is nutritional intake. Adolescence is a nutritionally vulnerable age because of rapid growth and if the eating habits is not good, it will have an impact on growth that is not optimal. The purpose of this study was to determine the nutritional status and eating habits of adolescent athletes during the maintenance period of nutritional status. This study used a Cross Sectional Study design. This study carried out anthropometric measurements, measurement of nutritional needs & intake and eating habits of adolescent athletes. The data that has been collected is then analyzed with the help of Microsoft Office Excel software. The results showed that 90% of respondents were in the normal nutritional status category, 5% each were in the mild and severe overweight categories. In the assessment of eating habits, 23% of respondents are in the high category, 9% are in the sufficient category, 59% of respondents are in the less category and 9% are in the low category. And on the assessment of nutritional intake, 18% of respondents were in the normal category, 9% hard mild deficits, 14% moderate deficits and 59% hard severe deficits.