Food Habits with Special Reference to Antioxidants Consumption Patterns among Adolescent Girls

Authors(2) :-Divya Gupta, Dr. Divya Rani Singh

Establishing sensible food habits from young is essential in shaping food preference later in life. For any person to remain healthy and avert acquiring any disease. It is extremely important for the person to develop a proper habit. It is only when a person control his diet and watches the food and drink which go into the body that would be able to protect him from any of the disease. Now days the youngster are very selective about the food they eat. The age of old curries and Idlis and dosa are out of their preference, even though they have been brainwashed right through about their good health effects. The varieties of meat products, pizza, and cheese alike are attracting their taste buds. Buying pre cooked item is a trend that is slowly on the increase with busy schedule, meal times too have become irregularly and when panqs of hunger strike, it is easier to pick up ready to eat snacks rather than prepare a hot meal. The market is constantly flooded with new food product, which are promote attractively and this has greatly influenced the food habits of the youngsters. Fruits, potatoes, spinach, garlic, carrot, whole wheat brown rice, butter, diary product, orange, lemon etc is source of Antioxidant. Free radical reactions have been implicated as cause or consequence in the following condition. Example - Immunity and ageing, cancer, PEM, Neurological condition, cardiovascular disease and excessive. Guiding girls about the way to prevent the loss of nutrients while cutting, chopping and peeling off the vegetable so as to prevent form the loss of essential nutrients which can save them from the lack of antioxidant and many other nutrients. Food habits greatly depend upon the factor that whether we consume food in isolation or in group and after carrying out above study it was found that majority of girls preferred having food is groups and only some girls preferred in isolation. Maximum (55%) girls, don't have knowledge of antioxidant while 45% girls have knowledge of antioxidants. 30% girls told orange lemon is source of antioxidant 26% girls told green vegetable and 10% girls told leafy vegetable but 34% respondents told other source of antioxidant. 55% girls included food rich in antioxidant in diet while 45%girls not included food rich in antioxidant.55% girls told antioxidant helpful in prevention of disease while 45% girls told antioxidant is no helpful in prevention of disease. Most girls consume nutrient intake was below the RDA, only fat intake was above the RDA which could lead to future disease.

Authors and Affiliations

Divya Gupta
Department of Home Science, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India
Dr. Divya Rani Singh
Department of Home Science, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Antioxidant, RDA, Adolescents, Food Habits

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Publication Details

Published in : Volume 3 | Issue 7 | September-October 2017
Date of Publication : 2017-10-31
License:  This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Page(s) : 687-692
Manuscript Number : IJSRST1737126
Publisher : Technoscience Academy

Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X

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Divya Gupta, Dr. Divya Rani Singh, " Food Habits with Special Reference to Antioxidants Consumption Patterns among Adolescent Girls", International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Print ISSN : 2395-6011, Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Volume 3, Issue 7, pp.687-692, September-October-2017.
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