Recommended Citation
Presented at Agricultural and Applied Economics Association’s 2012 AAEA & AERE Joint Annual Meeting: Seattle, WA, August 12, 2012.
Abstract
About 21% of U.S. college students are overweight. However, aside from the 1995 National College Health Risk Behavior Survey (NCHRBS), the prevalence of health-risk behavior among college students has not been well characterized. The objective of this study is to investigate how college student’s body fruit and vegetable intake is affected by (1) demographics, (2) dietary habits, and (3) lifestyle. We collected data of college students enrolled at California Polytechnic State University. Sedentary habits such as watching TV, playing computer games, and surfing the web negatively impact both fruit and vegetable intake, which emphasizes the need to improve on-campus health education.
Disciplines
Agribusiness
Copyright
2012 Christiane Schroeter and Marianne Wolf
Number of Pages
21
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URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/agb_fac/132