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Internet survey on basic eating and living habits in adults

Understanding basic attitudes of the public towards food, diet and health is extremely important when producing a diet guidebook for any country and in promotion of regular diet. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate habits and attitudes of adult individuals towards diet and health. The survey included 2985 individuals from 6 Croatian regions, users of Podravka's culinary portal www.coolinarika.com. The results were analyzed in SPSS and Microsoft Office Excel. Most of the subjects take 3 meals a day, which is in compliance to eating recommendations of other countries that emphasize the importance of taking more meals in a day. The results show that lunch is the most frequent meal, followed by breakfast and then dinner. Women skip dinner more often than men, while men skip breakfast and snacks between full meals. When shopping for groceries or when choosing food, most important criterion for the subjects is that it tastes good. The subjects eat fish less often than meat. Milk is consumed the most, every day, and cheese 2 to 3 time a week. Potato can be found on the menu more often than pasta and rice. Most of the subjects consume fats in the form of vegetable oils. Most of the subjects consume fresh and green cooked vegetables 2 to 3 time a week, and legumes once a week. Only one third takes fruit every day, citrus fruits and other fruits equally. Body mass index shows that 55% of the subjects are of normal weight, while 39% is overweight. The results show that most of the eating habits in Croatia have not undergone any significant changes lately, but are similar to results of previous surveys of eating habits in Croatia.

dietary habits ; internet survey

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