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A Study on the Dietary Habit and Health of Office Workers in Seoul  

Choi, Mi-Kyung (Department of Culinary and Foodservice Management, Graduate School of Sejong University)
Kim, Jong-Goon (Department of Culinary and Foodservice Management, Graduate School of Sejong University)
Kim, Jeong-Mee (Department of Culinary and Foodservice Management, Graduate School of Sejong University)
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Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture / v.18, no.1, 2003 , pp. 45-55 More about this Journal
Abstract
To investigate the relationship between dietary attitude and healthy status of office workers in Seoul was to be researched for 389 subjects (male: 224 and female: 165). As a result showed 69.4% of them moderately healthy state and 55.0% had a great interest in health. About 41.6% of the respondents was nonsmoker and 74.8% of them drunk alcohol once or twice a week. Only 28.0% of them responded to have breakfast three to four times a week. About 71.0% responded to skip breakfast'. The main reasons for it were 'the lack of time'(46.5%) and 'habitually'(22.6%). The usually preferred taste of food was showed to be 'hot' for 40.3%, the highest percentage. An attempt of supplemental food was 66.0%. The reason for it was shown to be 'for relaxation'(51.7%), followed by 'for prevention and treatment of diseases (23.1%). On dietary habit showed the groups of married and professional people won the hish scores on it. And the groups of those doing exercise once or twice a week, those having a sufficient sleep and those kept in a good food habit showed the high scores on it. The older age group showed the good dietary attitude regardless of occupation.
Keywords
Dietary habit; Office worker; Health; Survey; General characteristics; Prevention of disease;
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