Relationships between Nutrient Intake Status and Sugar-containing Food Intake of Elementary School Students in Daegu-Kyungbook Area

대구경북지역 초등학생들의 영양소 섭취상태와 가당식품 섭취와의 관련성

  • Kim, Hyeon-Jung (Department of Food and Nutrition, Keimyung University) ;
  • Oh, Hyun-Mee (Department of Food and Nutrition, Keimyung University) ;
  • Cho, Young-Ji (Department of Food and Nutrition, Keimyung University) ;
  • Yoon, Jin-Sook (Department of Food and Nutrition, Keimyung University)
  • 김현정 (계명대학교 식품영양학과) ;
  • 오현미 (계명대학교 식품영양학과) ;
  • 조영지 (계명대학교 식품영양학과) ;
  • 윤진숙 (계명대학교 식품영양학과)
  • Received : 2010.08.15
  • Accepted : 2010.10.10
  • Published : 2010.10.31

Abstract

This study was conducted to investigate the association of nutrients intake with sugar-containing food consumption of elementary school students in Daegu-Kyungpook area. We analyzed the dietary information from 164 elementary school students (82 boys, 82 girls) participated in "Dietary Intake Survey of Infants, Children and Adolescents" conducted by Korea Food & Drug Administration and Korea Health Industry Development Institute. Information on habitual dietary intake of sugar-containing foods was collected by food frequency questionnaires. Daily nutrients intake of each subject was calculated from 24-hour recall data for two non-consecutive days. As a result of average daily intake of major foods of elementary school students was analyzed from 1 to 50 ranking that show up higher ranking of white milk and white rice but include many kind of sugar-containing food. Dietary intake of energy, carbohydrate, Ca, P, Fe and riboflavin were significantly lower for girls with higher sugar-containing food frequency scores. Significantly negative associations between Index of Nutrition Quality (INQ) and sugar-containing food frequency scores were observed for calcium (r = -0.34) and iron (r = -0.32) among girls. Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR) was significantly lower for girls with higher sugar-containing food frequency scores (r = -0.26). Our results indicated that nutrition education for elementary school students should focus on the importance of reducing the sugarcontaining food consumption with more attention for girls.

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