Korean Journal of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회지)

The Korean Society of Community Nutrition (대한지역사회영양학회)
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Nutrient Intakes and Health-related Behaviors of the Elderly in Rural Area

노인급식제도 개발을 위한 농촌 노인의 식생활 양상 기초조사 -영양소 섭취 및 건강관련 행동 실태-

  • Park, Young-Sook (Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Soonchunhyang University) ;
  • Kim, Sun (Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Soonchunhyang University) ;
  • Park, Ki-Soon (Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Soonchunhyang University) ;
  • Lee, Joung-Won (Department of Home Economics, Chungnam National University) ;
  • Kim, Ki-Nam (Department of Food and Nutrition, Chungbuk National University)
  • 박영숙 (순천향대학교 식품영양학과) ;
  • 김순 (순천향대학교 식품영양학과) ;
  • 박기순 (순천향대학교 식품영양학과) ;
  • 이정원 (충남대학교 가정교육과) ;
  • 김기남 (충북대학교 식품영양학과)
  • Published : 1999.03.01
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Abstract

A study about health status of the elderly in rural area was performed with 110 home-bound elderly. The results obtained by questionaires and personal interviews recall were as follows. 1) Subjects were 68.6 years of age on average. They revealed the physical tendency of not overweight but high blood pressure. 2) We found that seniors who live alone in rural area were more than in urban area. 3) Average daily intakes of energy and protein of rural elderly were lower than the Korean RDA and the intakes of Ca, riboflavin and niacin in female were also lower. 4) Nutrient intakes were related to family income, food expense, smoking amount, drinking frequency and duration of exercrse, which suggested the needs of nutrition education for the seniors and meal services especially for the low-income elderly.

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