Evaluation of nutritional knowledge and dietary custom of medical college students

Objective To understand the status of nutritional knowledge and dietary custom of medical college students. Methods A total of 398 medical college students were investigated with questionnaire for their nutritional knowledge and dietary custom. Results Except protein,fat and cholesterol,most of the students know precious little about the food source of iron,calcium,carotene and vitamin B group.Most of them had unreasonable dietary patterns.Most of the students could clearly realize the relationship between the nutrition and diseases.The existing problems were mainly as follows: the most male students had less marine algae,fruit and milk but more salt,and the most female students had less egg,fish,meat,milk and marine algae.Most of the students were lack of exercises.Conclusions Nutrition education should be implemented to correct the medical college students' unhealthy dietary habits.