THE EFFECT OF NUTRITION ON THE GENERAL HEALTH OF THE ATATURK UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

This study evaluated the nutrition knowledge, nutrition kind and physical activity percentage effects on general health of the university student. The studied student was selected of different faculties. Standard questionnaire (K Parmenter and J Wardle 1999) used to measure subject’s nutrition knowledge, disturbed among 405 students randomly. The collected data was analyzed and difference was at 5% probability level. The results showed physical education students had the most knowledge of nutrition and the business student had the less information. The highest daily physical activity was related to the physical education students and they included the less illness percentage, but the female students illness percentage was higher than male students. According to our results, to conserve of the general health, in addition to the nutrition knowledge, the students should be have sufficient daily physical activity, too.