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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2014.5.4.113

Relation of Eating Speed and Metabolic syndrome in Fire fighters  

Lee, Chang-Sub (Sejong City Fire Service Headquarters)
Kim, Jee-Hee (Department of Emergency Medical Technology, Kangwon National University)
Bang, Sung-Hwan (Ministry of Public Safety and Security)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.5, no.4, 2014 , pp. 113-119 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Fire fighter; Eating speed; Metabolic syndrome; Eating habit;
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