肥滿兒童의 食習慣과 食品嗜好

A Study on the Food Habits and Food Preference of Obese Children

The purpose of this study was to investigate food habits and food preference of obese children. This survey was carried out through questionaries, 48 subjects were selected as an obese group and 96 subjects were selected as a control group according to their Rohrer index among the 756 children of 6th in elementary school in Taegu. In the statistical analysis of the data, percentage calculation and chi - square test were used. The results were summarized as following. In average score of food habits, obese group got 2.35/3.0 and control group got2.38/3.0 and had the similar food habits. Preference for protein food (hamburger, fried chicken, fishes, and soybean) of obese group was significantly higher than those of control group(p<0.05). Preference of milk and milk products was no significance in two groups. Most of legumes and fruits showed the similar preference in two groups, the control group showed higher preference for seaweeds and laver. Preference of carbohydrates was significantly in two groups respectively and the statistically meaningful foods of the two groups are cola and cider(p<0.05), bread(p<0.05), fried rice(p<0.01), laver-rice(p<0.001). Obese group showed high preference for deep fried foods compared to control group(p <0.05).