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Purchasing Behaviors and Needs for HMR according to the Food-Related Lifestyles of Baby Boomer Women (베이비부머 여성들의 식생활 라이프 스타일에 따른 HMR 구매행동 및 요구도)

  • Myung, Choonok;Nam, Haewon;Park, Youngsim
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.87-103
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the food-related lifestyle choices of female baby boomers and to investigate variables regarding home meal replacement (HMR) buying behaviors and future needs. This study was conducted on 358 female baby boomers 53 years of age living in Gyeonggi and near Seoul. Out of 420 distributed questionnaires, 358 were returned and used for analysis (response rate: 85.2%). As a result of cluster analysis, three groups were identified based on the food-related lifestyles : a value-seeking group, a convenience-seeking group, and a health-seeking group. Among the three groups, there were significant differences in two socio-demographic characteristics, education level (p<0.05) and regular exercise (p<0.01), and in several health- and food-related habits, type of breakfast (p<0.01), type of dinner (p<0.05), dinner details (p<0.05), frequency of eating out (p<0.05), and eating habits score (p<0.01). The health-seeking group was significantly more likely to purchase ready to cook (RTC) items (59.1%) than were the other groups (p<0.001). However, the ratio of HMR purchasing for the purpose of meal replacement (p<0.05) and an HMR purchasing frequency of more than twice a week (p<0.001) were significantly lower in the health-seeking group. Reasons for selecting HMR showed a similar tendency among groups in taste (26.2%), convenience (18.7%), price (16.9%), safety (15.3%) and type of food (14.3%). However, the satisfaction scores for hygiene and safety reported by the health-seeking group were significantly lower than those reported by the other groups. More than two-thirds of all respondents were willing to purchase HMR in the future, though there were significant differences according to group: convenience-seeking group, 73.1%, health-seeking group, 70.1%, and value-seeking group, 65.7% (p<0.05). Our results suggest that the number of baby boomers purchasing HMR products will continue to grow and baby boomers will want HMR products to be more healthy (52.0%), safe (28.5%) and delicious (13.4%). An emphasis on taste was high in the convenience-seeking group, whereas an emphasis on health was high in the health-seeking and value-seeking groups. In conclusion, this study shows various food-related lifestyles amongst female baby boomers and illustrates the need to develop HMR marketing strategies targeted to these different lifestyles.

Effects of Food-related Lifestyle on the Importance of Selected Attributes of Diet Lunch Box (식생활 라이프스타일 유형이 다이어트 도시락 선택속성의 중요도에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Binna;Sim, Ki Hyeon
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.413-426
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    • 2017
  • The study subjects were 302 adult males and females aged more than 20 years living in the metropolitan area of South Korea. This study was conducted to obtain baseline data to establish proper development and marketing strategies by examining the effects of food-related lifestyles on the importance of diet, purchasing behavior towards diet lunch boxes, and their selected attributes such as menu, packaging, and services. With respect to food-related lifestyle, a cluster analysis was performed by using five factors such as convenience factor, health factor, safety factor, taste factor, and economy factor obtained from factor analysis to derive the economy type, the taste and economy type, the convenience type, the safety type, and the health type. As a result, the respondents regarded 'food hygiene (4.59)', 'freshness (4.47)', 'taste (4.28)', and 'nutrient balance (4.19)' as the selected attributes of diet lunch box menus. Moreover, the importance of diet lunch box menus (${\beta}=0.179$) was increased with increasing safety orientation. 'Shelf life label (4.42)' was the most important selected attribute of diet lunch boxes, followed by 'ingredient label (4.19)', 'nutrition facts label (4.16)', and 'indication of origin (4.15)'. In particular, the importance of packaging for diet lunch boxes (${\beta}=0.203$) was increased with increasing safety orientation. With respect to the selected attributes of services in purchasing diet lunch boxes, 'provision of personalized menus (4.07)' was the most important, and the importance of services for diet lunch box (${\beta}=0.160$) was increased with increasing taste and economy orientation. Based on the above results, the respondents gave importance to the selected attributes related to food safety and health such as hygiene and, freshness. In addition, they also placed emphasis on hygiene and safe factors such as shelf life, ingredients, and nutrition facts labels. Therefore, it is considered necessary to develop diet lunch boxes by taking these factors into account. Furthermore, in services for diet lunch boxes, it is considered necessary to establish a service system capable of providing consumers with specialized menu or nutrition counseling according to the food-related lifestyle for their proper health management. Particularly, because consumers place emphasis on both food hygiene and safety, and health, it is considered necessary to thoroughly manage hygiene, safety, and nutrition in menu or packaging so that it is possible to enhance customer satisfaction by considering these selected attributes in greater detail.

Study on Level of Novelty Seeking Need and Oversea Travel Motivators (신기성 욕구수준에 따른 해외여행동기 차이에 관한 연구)

  • Park Sin Ja
    • Journal of Applied Tourism Food and Beverage Management and Research
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.153-174
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    • 2003
  • Travel motivations appear particularly useful in describing those individuals who visit a specific travel attraction versus those who do not visit the attraction. Novelty seeking is an important motivator for traveling today. In this study four factors and three groups resulting from a cluster analysis were tested in determination for 13 preference and 21 motivators. The major finding of this study are as follows: Prior consideration in oversea travel for people is to expect to contact new culture and exotic environment. In the selection of oversea travel with the level of novelty seeking traits, rhere is meaningfull diffrences. In the novelty seeking levels of leisure activities remarkable difference appeared in the selective degree variables and the examination of the gap. In the selection of oversea with the novelty seeking level it displayed meaningful differences in the 10 items. In a travel in accordance with levels of novelty seeking- which is divided into groups high, medial, and, low level of novelty seeking groups- four elements of their levels demonstrated meaningful differences, such as adventure seeking type, out-of-ordinary life type, fun seeking type and free travel type. In order words, the means of high-concerned group, medial, and ldw-concerned group showed remarkable differemndes.

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Statistical patterns of lipase activities on the release of short-chain fatty acids in Cheddar cheese slurries

  • Kwak, Hae-Soo
    • Journal of Dairy Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.6-19
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    • 1989
  • Twenty-five commercial food grade and alalytical grade lipases were used to study the patterns of release of short-chain free fatty acids (FFA) from milk fat in cheese slurries. Principal component Analysis showed that there were four distinctive groups by the FFA ratios and five groups by the FFA concentrations. However, Average Linkage Cluster Analysis showed that the patterns of FFA released were dependent upon distance defined between groups of lipases. All the lipases tested with both statistical analysis had distinctive specificities in hydrolyzing short-chain FFA from milk fat. Lipases from ruminant-animal origins produced an extremely high ratio (>40%) of butyric acid and a low ratio (<26%) of capric acid to total short chain FFA. Lipases from porcinepancreas and some microbial origins showed balanced production in both bytyric and capric acid. However, most lipases from microbial origins released a high ratio of capric acid but similar ratios to other origin enzymes for short-chain free fatty acids. Ruminant-animal origin lipases produced short-chain FFA much higher in concentration than other lipases. Lipases from porcine pancreas as well as microbial origins showed different concentrations of the fatty acids. Ratios of short-chain FFA in each sample were not significantly changed during incubation periods (4 wk), whereas concentrations of the FFA increased considerably.

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A Study on the Existence and Sodium Consumption of Active Seniors among the Elderly Using National Health and Nutrition Survey (국민건강영양조사를 활용한 고령자 내 Active Senior 계층의 존재 및 나트륨 섭취에 관한 연구)

  • Rhee, Jae-Hyun;Yang, Sung-Bum
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.399-405
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze existence of active senior and their sodium intake using the 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Survey. The samples used for this study were 1,336 males and 1,857 females older than age 45. We used the K-means cluster analysis to distinguish the elderly and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to compare the means statistically among the groups. The analysis confirmed the existence of active seniors and showed different characteristics from other clusters. Also, the sodium intake in active seniors varies with other clusters depending on gender, economic status, social participation and health. In conclusion to reduce the unnecessary social cost of health deterioration of the elderly caused by aging, it is desirable to implement a class-specific policy based on the results of this study.

Isolation and Numerical Identification of Antibiotic-Producing streptomyces sp. for Methicillin Resistant Strphylococcus aureus (메치실린 내성 포도상구균에 유효한 항생물질을 생산하는 Streptomyces sp. YSK-681의 분리 및 수리 동정)

  • 김중배;이동희;신운섭;고춘명
    • The Korean Journal of Food And Nutrition
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    • v.11 no.3
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    • pp.340-346
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    • 1998
  • The strain YSK-681 has been selected for antibiotic-producing strain against methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus(MRSA) form 1,000 strains of actinomycetes which had been isolated from soil. The strain YSK-681 has been identified on the point of morphological, cultural, physiological and chemical characteristics. Forty-one taxonomic unit characters were tested and the data were analysed numerically using the TAXON program. The isolate was classified into the major cluster 29 of Streptomyces and best-matched to Streptomyces lydicus. Therefore, it was concluded that the isolate was identified to be Streptomyces lydicus.

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Life Style and Dietary Pattern (라이프스타일과 식생활양식)

  • 임정빈
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.28 no.3
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    • pp.33-52
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    • 1990
  • The aims of this study are to classify the life styles of urban housewives, to see their relationship between life style and demorgaphic variables, and also to see the relationship between life style and dietary patterns. This study has been performed by a questionsire about life style, demographic variables and dietary pattern. The selected samples were 475 housewives. The data were analyzed by factor analysis, cluster analysis, Duncan test, X-test and F-test. Life style is classified into 4 types: temporary enjoying type, passive irrational type, realistic conservative type, actual progressive type. The housewives who are in temporary enjoying type usually do randomly and don't think seriously something. And they have tendency to enjoy themselves. Therefore they don't have any plan for dietary behavior. The passive irrational type's housewives have no consistancy in their life and they do everything temporarily. The housewives who are in this type have relatively low incom, low level of education and they are high in age. The people who are in realistic conservative type act reasonably and elastically everything. They use convenient food very much, because they are willing to save time to make them. The housewives who are included in actual progressive type are well organized and planned in dietary behavior than others, when they dine out, they eat with family together in general, they usually use only a kind of western sauces and convenient food. They are relatively young, highly educated, and they are high income group. In conclusion realistic conservative type and actual progressive type are both relatively desirable type in dietary behavior, but in temporary enjoying type and passive irrational type, there, have to do some guide and education about managing family resources and dietary behavior.

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Societal Implications of Biotechnology and GMOs in Agriculture (생명공학과 GMOs의 농업에 대한 사회적 함의)

  • Lim, Hyung-Baek
    • Journal of Agricultural Extension & Community Development
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.175-189
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    • 2004
  • There are many assertions related to biotechnology and genetically modified organisms(GMOs). Some experts have asserted that GM foods could be dangerous and that there is no reliable evidence that have been demonstrated safe through appropriate tests, and the others asserted these foods are as safe and nutritions as their conventional counterparts. The objectives of this study was to study an societal implications of biotechnology and GMOs in agriculture. To keep the balance in mind the researcher examined not only usefulness but also harmfulness of GMOs, along with the developmental process of biotechnology industry. It was observed that basically, multinational corporations developed GMOs to maximize their profit, and strengthened their control on agriculture and food through GMOs, as observed in alliance among big multinational corporations' food chain cluster and systems. Under the situation, farmers were losing their status as independent producer and were becoming propertied labor for multinational corporation through contract farming. If these trends continuous in the future, multinational corporations will have the control of genetic resources, these may bring about reduction of bio-diversity, thus may lead the opposite direction to eco-friendly agriculture. If multinational corporations' tendency to suppress the latent harmfulness for the profit continuous further, this may lead the degradation phase of farming and agriculture, thus leading negative socio-economic effects as well as culture and religion.

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Symptoms and Symptom Clusters in Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma Patients in Turkey

  • Bolukbas, Ferdag;Kutluturkan, Sevinc
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.15 no.17
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    • pp.7153-7158
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    • 2014
  • Background: Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) patients demonstrate multiple symptoms in diagnosis and treatment processes. This cross-sectional descriptive study aimed to determine the symptoms and symptom clusters in such patients receiving chemotherapy. Materials and Methods: The study was carried out on a total of 110 inpatients and outpatients receiving treatment in 7 hospitals in Ankara, Turkey. A questionnaire form and the Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) were applied. Percentages, means, t test, one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and cluster analysis were used for statistical analyses. Results: The most prevalent symptoms in this study were lack of energy, hair loss and change in the way food tastes. The most severe symptoms were hair loss, change in the way food tastes and constipation. The top three most distressing symptoms were taste change, constipation and mouth sores. Seven symptom clusters were determined in this study. Conclusions: Findings of the study will provide an understanding of symptom experiences of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients receiving chemotherapy and will guide determining appropriate nursing interventions. Receiving care of desired quality will contribute to increasing quality of life of affected individuals.

Physicochemical Properties and Consumer Acceptability of Commercial Gang-jeong (시판 강정류의 이화학적 특성 및 소비자 기호도에 관한 연구)

  • Ryu, Ji-Hye;Kwon, Yong-Suk;Kim, Kyoung-Mi;Lee, Jin-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Food Culture
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.637-647
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    • 2014
  • This study was conducted to examine the physicochemical properties and consumer acceptability of commercial Gang-jeong. The samples used in this study were nine different Gang-jeong as commercial products. To accomplish this research, the physicochemical properties of nine samples, including moisture, crude lipid, sugar contents, acid value, color values, and texture, were measured. In addition, consumer panels evaluated the overall acceptability, appearance, flavor, sweetness, and texture of samples using a 9-point Likert type scale as well as the perceived intensities of sweetness and rancid odor by a 9-point Just-About-Right (JAR) scale. All data were statistically analyzed using One-way ANOVA, Principle Component Analysis, Hierarchical Cluster Analysis, and Pearson's Correlation Analysis. All physicochemical properties were significantly different among the samples (p<0.001). Analyses of consumer acceptability and JAR ratings of the nine samples showed significant differences (p<0.001).