[Nutritional status and problems with obesity in relation to educational status in young people in the Czech...

The cross section study was performed with the aim to detect health prone nutritional behaviour and describe its relationship to the education in the groups of 20-25 years old people. Two groups: 449 undergraduate medical students (UG) and 116 non-graduate control people (C) were compared in respect of their food habits (food frequency questionnaire), nutrition (3 days dietary records data) and health nutritional state (measurement of body weight, height, percentage of body fat using Harpenden calliper). UG male performed higher energy intake, however, they did not differ in BMI, but they showed lower proportion of body fat ¿95% CI:(-4.22; -4.18)% of body content¿, probably due to higher physical activity. UG female performed lower energy intake and lower body mass index in comparison to C ¿95% CI:(-4.18; -4.8) kg/m2¿.

Higher level of education is associated with health prone behaviour and is reflected on health nutritional state already in age of early adulthood.