초등학생들의 식생활 습관이 비만에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

The Effect of Dietary Habits on Obesity in Elementary School Children

Nowadays, as the dietary life has been improved and the life style has become convenient in modem society by a rapid economic development and improvement of cultural level, children take excessive nutrition, the opportunity for physical activity is decreased and finally obesity of children in a growth period is been increased rapidly. Obesity has a high possibility to cause in complications of a chronic disease, such as a lowering of physical strength, fatty liver, hyperlipidemia, etc. and to cause psychological disability. Especially, the children with when they were young have a high possibility to be transferred an adult with obesity. This study was enforced to clarify the factor related to obesity and to provide the fundamental materials to prevent children’s obesity by investigating the actual condition of elementary school children’s obesity and the factor of dietary habits. It was indicated that they thought their obesity was caused by lack of practice and dietary habits(p<.001), as the reason of their obesity was searched as 49.2% in lack of practice and 36.7% in dietary habits. In the question of dietary habits, there was significant correlation between the normal children and the children with obesity in overeating dinner, taking food made by wheat flour, preferring the food with some oil, eating between meals, and satiety(p<.05). Looking into the behaviors during having meals, 46% of the whole children was appeared highest to have a meal watching TV or reading books(p<.01). In the question of the times to eating between meals, it was indicated that the normal children had more times of eating between meals, as the children with obesity didn’t eat between meals of ate just 1 time, whereas the normal children ate between meals (p<.001).