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Breakfast skipping, anxiety, exercise, and soda consumption are associated with diet quality in Mexican college students
In 2017, Mexican college students were asked to complete a health and nutrition survey to get an insight into the students’ diet quality and sociodemographic background. The objective of this paper was to examine the relationship between diet quality and sociodemographic factors among these 450 Mexican college students. In Mexico, reports have indicated that university students have poor eating habits and are at risk of weight gain, but this topic is still understudied among the population. The author explains that the student current economic environment is rapidly evolving. There appears to be a shift from the traditional, homemade cuisine to a diet more influenced by the industrialized culture. Hall et al. investigated the potential effects this may have had on college students’ dietary consumption. The team of researchers discovered that skipping breakfast was associated with eating low-quality macronutrients and micronutrients. Anxiety was also linked with low-quality macronutrients. There were more relationships found using this analysis model. For example, consuming less than 1,800 kcal daily, doing vigorous exercise for less than or exactly 1 hour per week, and drinking soda were all related to low-quality micronutrient consumption. [NPID: students, Mexico, Mexican, eating habits, diet, unhealthy diet, healthy diet, micronutrients, macronutrients, nutrients, nutrition]
Year: 2017
