Exploring student nutrition and food choices among first year students

ASSIGNMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
METHOD........................................................................................................................................2
RESULTS........................................................................................................................................3
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION.............................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Topic
Exploring student nutrition and the reasoning behind food choice and frequency amongst
first year students
Background
Nutrition can be defied as a science that interprets nutrients present in food for
maintenance of growth of body (Kabir, Miah and Islam, 2018). Food and nutrition play a vital
and important role within an individual’s life as it provides energy to a person that helps them in
remaining healthy and fit. Food choices and frequency in which students have meals directly
impact their health. Having nutritious food is extremely important for students. It helps students
to remain healthy, avoid health problems which in directly helps them to concentrate among their
academics and maintain both physical and mental health (Amore, Buchthal and Banna, 2019). It
has also been analysed that there are various kinds of factors that directly affect food choices of
students, frequency in which they have different food items which further impact their nutritional
intake. Due to this it becomes extremely important to focus upon identifying barriers and
enablers that impact food choices and frequency of food intake of students so that their health
can be enhanced by maintenance of nutrition.
Aim
The main aim of this research project is ‘To explore student nutrition by reasoning
student’s choice of food’?
Research questions
Main research questions of this project are as follows:
 What are the main factors that affect food choice of students?
 How food choices affect frequency of food intake?
 What is the relationship between student nutrition and their food choices?
Purpose of the research
Main purpose of this research project is to identify and explore importance of nutrition
for a student and identify ways in which choice of food and frequency of food affect their
nutrition level. This research will also help in identifying ways in which different kinds of factors
affect college student’s food choices.
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