Students' dietary habits

The World Health Organization (WHO) particularly highlights the actions that need to be taken in order to draw attention to health promoting effects, with particular emphasis on healthy eating and physical activity. The aim of the research is to define University students' dietary habits. Materials and methods. The questionnaire inquired about the dietary habits of students including healthy and unhealthy food variations (from previous day's food intake). For data analysis the traditional programme SPSS 16.0 was employed. The participants of the research: 158 full-time and 52 part-time students of Liepaja University and Riga Stradins University Branch of Liepaja. The results. According to self-assessment of students, 31 % full-time students and 49.9% part-time students have good nutrition on daily basis. But at the same time, our research showed that 43. 6% full-time students and 25 % part-time students have bad dietary habits, 44.9 % full-time students and 51.9% part-time students satisfactory dietary habits, but good nutrition habits have only 11,4% full-time students and 23.1% part-time students. There were no students with very good dietary habits. 39.9% of full-time and 28.8% of part-time students had intentions to use healthier diet in the future.