The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition (한국식품영양학회지)

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Dietary Attitude of Single Households in Metropolitan Areas

수도권에 거주하는 1인 가구 식생활 태도 조사

  • Heo, Yun Kyung (Dept. of Traditional Dietary Life, Graduate School of Traditional Culture and Arts, Sookmyung Women's University) ;
  • Sim, Ki Hyeon (Dept. of Traditional Dietary Life, Graduate School of Traditional Culture and Arts, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • 허윤경 (숙명여자대학교 전통문화예술대학원 전통식생활문화전공) ;
  • 심기현 (숙명여자대학교 전통문화예술대학원 전통식생활문화전공)
  • Received : 2016.08.16
  • Accepted : 2016.10.15
  • Published : 2016.10.31
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Abstract

This study conducted a survey with 203 single households among men and women in their 20s to 40s who were living in metropolitan areas from October 6 to November 4, 2012 in order to investigate the dietary attitude of the single households. The ratio of single households who had three meals a day regularly was 2.85 points, which was lower than the normal level, and it turned out that those in their 20s and 30s had meals more regularly than those in their 40s did (p<0.001). As for the irregular meal time, most were breakfast (85.9%), and it turned out that they often skipped meals mostly because they did not have time to eat and (41.7%) or because that bothered them (26.0%). 62.6% of the single households did overeating and most of them (39.4%) did overeating because of their irregular meals. Of the single households, women or persons who had lived alone for less than 3 years or more than 7 years cooked at home, more often (p<0.05), and most of them (42%) cooked noodles, easy to cook, but women cooked Korean food-based homemade food such as rice (31.7%) or soup and stew (21.2%), often (p<0.05). It turned out that 36.9% of the single households often ate out about two to three times a day, and as for their favorite eating-out menus, 39.4% were Korean food, followed by Western food (23.8%), flour-based food (13.5%), fast food (9.8%), Chinese food (7.3%) and Japanese food (6.2%). Lastly, as for inconveniences when they ate out, most were the 'price' (22.8%), followed by 'too much amount of food for one person' (20.2%) and 'limitations in menu selection' (19.2%). As a result of this study, it appeared that the single households had an irregular dietary life, often did overeating and often ate out, so it is judged that it would be necessary to develop a variety of nutritionally-balanced HMR food and eating-out menus in a reasonable price range for their healthy dietary life.

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