Volume : 6, Issue : 2, February - 2017
A COMPARITIVE STUDY OF FLUID AND EXCESSIVE SALT INTAKE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS
Priyadarshini, Girish Desai, K. Sneha
Abstract :
<p> Water is considered most essential nutrition so also salt but in excess may be detrimental. Fluid intake is a prime factor dictated by weather, occupation, age, health condition, exercises or physical or mental exhaustion, excessive sodium intake and loss of fluids due to various reasons. Hundred students each from Ayurveda Medical college and from non professional colleges were randomly selected to take part in the study after oral consent was taken. All two hundred students were between 19 to 22 years of age, not on any regular medication. A standard questionnaire with specific and simple scoring was given. It included water, milk, coffee, tea, fruit juice intake on an average day, activity including yoga, walking and type of food preferred recorded systematically and observed and conclusions were made. Comparison between both groups was analyzed. Students who consumed more salt and preferred junk food, required and consumed more water. Ayurveda medical college students were healthier and more health conscious towards sufficient water intake and limited excessive salt intake. Excessive dietary salt intake awareness was not much in non professionals. </p>
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priyadarshini, Girish Desai, K.sneha, A COMPARITIVE STUDY OF FLUID AND EXCESSIVE SALT INTAKE AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-6, Issue-2, February‾2017