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http://dx.doi.org/10.3746/jkfn.2003.32.1.102

Current Tendency of Middle School Students to Get the Food and Nutrition Information from the Internet Web Site  

고봉경 (계명대학교 식품영양학과)
윤진숙 (계명대학교 식품영양학과)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Science and Nutrition / v.32, no.1, 2003 , pp. 102-108 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study investigated the current tendency of the middle school student's use of the food and nutrition information from the internet web site. The research employed web survey for the national middle school students. Middle school students usually searched the internet information to do homework and to solve the own curiosity. Forty percent of respondents had experience to get food and nutrition information from tile internet, and 74% of them were girl. Cooking method and world cooking exploring were the most wanted information among food and nutrition information. Professional cooking site and tips of food and nutrition from study aiding sites and monthly magazine sites were tile resources of food and nutrition information. The mai or reasons for searching the food and nutrition information were to know the cooking method and out of curiosity. The most unsatisfied problems were unnecessary information, too much advertisement and too difficult contents when the users approached the site to get the food and nutrition information. Students who have been not interested in and had no homework about food and nutrition, had no visiting experience of web sites for food and nutrition information. Therefore, to provide food and nutrition information for teenagers through internet, web sites were developed to have easy contents linked to study aiding site or other sites that teenagers frequently visit. Since teenager's interest about health issues is not as high as adult's one, the contents of sites must be easy for teenagers to follow and fun, however, should be based on scientific facts on food, nutrition and disease.
Keywords
middle school students; internet web site; food and nutrition information;
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