The concept of healthy eating and nutritional habits of college students? attitudes and behaviors: An application on Çukurova University students

The concept of healthy nutrition has been planned and conducted in order to determine the manners and the behaviors of the students that receive education at Çukurova University, towards nutritional habits. The factors that affect students? nutrition selection, the evaluation of the concepts of healthy nutrition, personal opinions concerning nutrition levels, reasons of inclining towards healthy nutrition and research of the information obtained in line with the information sources about nutrition constitute the objective of this study.A thirty-one question survey that consisted of three sections applied as data accumulation means. There are questions like the student?s gender, age, height, weight, body-mass index, their department, accommodation status, income status, financial status of the family, their state of following the news concerning nutrition, their state of health, alcoholic beverages and tobacco products consumption state and whether they exercise in the first section (17 questions). As forthe second section (9 questions), there are questions about students? knowledge and habits of nutrition. These questions are about the students? knowledge of nutrition, their state of confidence in being nourished in a healthy way, daily meal counts, counts of having meal, meal skipping reasons, places that meals are being consumed and consuming frequency of some foods and beverages. Third section, which is the last section (5 questions) consists of the questions about what students perceive of the concept of healthy nutrition, their manners directed to nutrition and whether the healthy nutrition suggestions in Turkey are adequate or not.Chi-square test, independent two-sample t test and anovawere applied in the analyzing of this study.Keywords: The Concept of Healthy Nutrition, Nutrition Knowledge, Factors That Affect Nutrition, Independent Two-Sample T Test, Chi-Square, ANOVA