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Current Trends in Food Habits and Dietary Intakes of Home Economics Students in Three Junior High Schools in Rhode Island

Department of Food Science & Technology, Nutrition, and Dietetics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 02881

James G. Bergan

Department of Food Science & Technology, Nutrition, and Dietetics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston 02881

Caroline F. Murgo

42 Slater Avenue, Providence 02906

Ten-day dietary records of 205 female and 73 male home economics students, 13 and 14 years of age, indicated that the males had a significantly higher intake of all nutrients except ascorbic acid. Snacks contributed more to the total daily intake of females than to that of males, and break fast contributed less than one-quarter of the daily intake for a majority of the nutrients. The average intake of iron was low for both sexes. At the lower limits of adequacy (approximately 67 per cent of the 1974 RDA) were the average intakes of calcium and energy for the females, while the remain der of the nutrients were adequate for both males and females.

(Home Economics Research Journal, May 1979, Vol. 7, No. 5)

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal, Vol. 7, No. 5, 324-333 (1979)
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X7900700506


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