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Relation of Eating Speed and Metabolic syndrome in Fire fighters

소방공무원의 식사속도와 대사증후군에 관한 연구

  • 이창섭 (세종특별자치시 소방본부) ;
  • 김지희 (강원대학교 응급구조학과) ;
  • 방성환 (국민안전처 119구급과)
  • Received : 2014.09.24
  • Accepted : 2014.12.11
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

Fire fighters should eat their meal very fast in order to arrive in the emergency scene on time. The purpose of the study is to investigate the influence of eating speed on the health of the fire fighters. The subjects were fire fighters, National maritime police, soldiers, public officials, university students, and company employees. The fire fighters had the shortest eating time of 8 minutes 29 seconds, and eating speed of National maritime police was 8 minutes 33.17 seconds, and public officials had 12 minutes 49.33 seconds. Soldiers had 10 minutes 15 seconds, university students had 14 minutes 15 seconds, and company employees had 16 minutes 51 seconds in eating their meals. The previous studies said that eating speed had influenced on the metabolic syndrome and the survey on the American fire fighters showed that the fire fighters gained 7.7 pounds during the past 8 years. Through this study, it is necessary to implement the right eating habit that is able to slow down the eating speed in the Korean fire fighters. The Fire Academy should provide the right eating habit education program to the fire fighters.

소방공무원은 근무 중 예고 없이 출동해야 하기 때문에 식사속도가 빠를 것으로 추정된다. 본 연구의 목적은 소방공무원의 식사속도가 건강에 어떤 영향을 주는지 알기 위해 수행되었다. 이를 검증하기 위하여 소방공무원과 다른 직종 종사자에 대한 식사속도를 측정하였다. 식사에 소요되는 평균시간 측정결과, 소방공무원이 8분 29.00초로 가장 짧았으며, 해양경찰공무원 8분 33.17초, 군인 10분 44.77초, 일반직공무원 12분 49.33초, 대학생 14분 15.00초, 일반회사원 16분 51.00초 순으로 측정되었다. 빠른 식습관은 체중증가 및 대사증후군에 영향을 준다는 것을 선행연구에서 확인할 수 있었으며, 미국 소방관을 대상으로 한 설문조사에서는 8년간 7.7파운드의 체중증가가 있었다고 발표되었다. 소방공무원의 식사시간을 늦추기 위해서 각 소방학교의 교육과정 중에 건강에 유익한 식습관에 대한 교육을 실시할 것을 제안한다.

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