Awareness regarding health effects of junk food consumption amongst polytechnic students

Abstract

Junk food is the food that is served at fast food outlets, quickly and easily processed and prepared but lack in essential nutrients with dense in calories. Such junk foods are having poor nutritive value and are not healthy. Looking to this, it was found essential to study awareness regarding health effects of junk food consumption amongst polytechnic students studying at polytechnic, Khedbrahma. All the students were purposively selected for the study. A questionnaire was used for data collection. Statistical analysis of the data was carried out. Results showed that students did not had clear idea about which foods can be considered as junk food. The level of awareness of health effects of junk food consumption among polytechnic students was checked and it was found that majority (68%) of them had medium knowledge, less than one fourth (18%) had low knowledge and only few (4%) were having high knowledge. Most of them (75.60 %) were interested in getting information about healthy snacks which can replace junk food.