Abstract
This study was carried out to investigate the food habit and health status of housewives in rural area of Gyonggi Province. The subjects of this study were 121 rural housewives and interviewed with a questionnaire. The results were as follows 1. In food habit items, the mean of Kimchi intake ($4.89\pm0.38$) was the highest, while that of meat processed food intake ($2.12\pm1.07$) was the lowest. The average of food habit score was $53.1\pm7.7$(out of 80) and was not significantly different with educational level, income, family type, size and agricultural type. In age, older subjects had low score. In regular mealtime, 74.4% of subjects had high score. The subjects that had good appetite were 49.6%. 2. The average of height and weight were 156.99cm and 55.5kg respectively. The appeal ratio in THI items was high in the order of musculoskeletal pain (1.62), tired (1.88), eye-fatigued (1.91), mental instability (2.03) and depression (2.07). The average of THI score was $32.7\pm5.5$(out of 45) and was not significantly different with educational level, income, family type and size, but the subjects of younger and nonagricultural belonged to high score level. The percentage of subjects in normal blood pressure, obesity and retained disease at present were 66.9%, 6.1% and 23.1% respectively. There was no significant difference except for good appetite in the relation among food habit, obesity and blood pressure. Food habit score was not significantly different with THI score, but health status seemed to be good in the better food habit.
