Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture (한국식생활문화학회지)
- Volume 15 Issue 1
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- Pages.17-28
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- 2000
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- 1225-7060(pISSN)
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- 2288-7148(eISSN)
Dietary Behaviors of Adults for Health in Ulsan City
울산시민의 건강실천을 위한 식생활 행태
- Shin, Ae-Sook (Dept. of Hotel Culinary Arts, Yangsan College) ;
- Kim, Kwang-Kee (Graduate School of Public Health at Seoul, Inje Univ.)
- Published : 2000.03.30
Abstract
This paper is an effort to describe dietary behaviors to keep them healthy among adults. A probability sample was drawn from residents aged between 15 and 60 living in Ulsan City area through a multi-staged cluster sampling method. The data collected by face-to-face interview includes 1,232 respondents. Both univariate and bivariate analyses were employed to describe the dietary behaviors. The dietary behaviors in this study includes preference of taking fat-part of meat, fried food, salty food, hot-taste food, drinking coffee and milk, and taking supplementary medicine. About half of the respondents reported to take fat removed when eating meat, and more than 68% of them preferred not to take any kinds of fried food. With respect to preference of salty and hot-taste food, 39.6% of the respondents take medium-salty and 39.4% do hot-taste food. A third of the respondents drink two-four cups of coffee a day. Those who reported not to drink milk at all were prevalent(37.4% of the respondents) than expected. However, less than 20% of the respondents reported to have any kinds of supplementary health food in a year. These dietary behaviors were examined by sociodemographic characteristics for bivariate analyses.
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