Gymnasieelevers kostvanor

Abstract According to World health organization, WHO, healthreport from 2002 makes physical inactivity and obesity together more than 10 % of the gathering global burden of diseases and are the source of increasing costs of healthcare. WHO estimate that 80 % of the cardiovascular diseases, 90 % type 2 diabetes and 30 % of all cancer can be provided by healthy diets, sufficiency physical activity and to quit smoking. The aim of this study is to examine senior high school students food habits and to see if there any differences between boys and girls food habits. The study has been made of a quantitative approach where senior high school students in grade 1, 2 have been answering the inquiry. The alternative answer in the inquiry was structured so that the students could fill in one or more alternatives that agreed with their food habits. Three questions had approximation alternatives. To have a good attitude towards food you should eat breakfast, lunch and dinner and also snacks in between and make sure this is evenly spread over the day. You should also eat plenty of products with wholemeal, fruit and vegetables. The conclusion is that students overall eat healthy which can be from newspapers and TV that continuously feed us with information about the risks with overweight and obesity. Often we can read in newspaper and see on TV how we should eat to feel good and loose weight. It could be that the students have knowledge about what is healthy but still can’t resist the temptation of sweets, crisp and chocolate. It can be all what’s offered so easily of sweets, crisp and chocolate in shops, kiosk and petrolstations. One idea to get the students to eat more fruit is to serve it daily in the schoollunch. The result shows that the students eat breakfast, lunch and dinner but not snacks. Girls eat more fruit and vegetables than boys. Boys drink more soda and diet soda and boys eat more sweets than girls. Sammanfattning Enligt världshälsoorganisationen WHO:s hälsorapport från 2002 utgör fysisk inaktivitet och fetma tillsammans mer än 10 procent av den globala samlade sjukdomsbördan och ger upphov till ökande kostnader för hälso- och sjukvården. WHO bedömer att 80 procent av hjärt-kärlsjukdomarna, 90 procent av diabetes typ 2 och 30 procent av all cancer kan förebyggas genom bra matvanor, tillräckligt med fysisk aktivitet och genom att sluta röka. Med denna undersökning vill jag undersöka gymnasieelevers kostvanor samt se om det finns skillnader mellan pojkar oc