Evaluation of the Dietary Habits of Polish and Greek University Students in the Context of the Health Benefits of Their Diets.

: Eating habits and behaviors play a central role in maintaining health and overall well-being. In the case of young students, they affect not only appearance and general mood but also cognitive ability, concentration, and broader learning ability. For this reason, it is essential for young people to have well-balanced and wholesome diets.

Metabolic Risk Factors in Young Men With Healthy Body Fat But Different Level of Physical Activity.

The study was performed to evaluate metabolic risk in young lean individuals characterized by different physical activity. A total of 194 students (93 active with 5-7 h weekly physical activity and 101 inactive) were accepted for the study. The following percentages of body fat were accepted as characteristic for lean men: 14% to 17% in active and 18% to 24% in inactive participants.

Differences in eating patterns of middle school students living in urban and rural areas located in the Masovian Voivodeship.

Background: Proper eating behaviours among youth condition their bodies’ optimal growth and development and impact future diet choices, which affects maintenance of health in later years. Studies concerning assessment of the way of eating among adolescents in Poland over the past years indicate a number of errors.

Objective: The aim of these studies was to asses diet diversity of middle school students, living in urban and rural areas located in the Masovian Voivodeship.

Body shape index versus body mass index as correlates of health risk in young healthy sedentary men.

Recently a new simply calculated index of body composition -a body shape index (ABSI) has been introduced as an index more reliable than BMI of association between body composition and all-cause mortality. However, until now associations between ABSI and metabolic risk factors have not been evaluated. A total of 114 male university students not engaged in any planned physical activity participated in the present study.

Relationship between the percentage of body fat and surrogate indices of fatness in male and female Polish active and sedentary students.

Background: Limited data have indicated that body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), waist to hip ratio (WHR) and waist to height ratio (WHtR) of athletes and young adults provide misleading results concerning body fat content. This study was aimed at the evaluation of the relationship between different surrogate indices of fatness (BMI, WC, WHR, WHtR and body adiposity index (BAI)) with the percentage of body fat in Polish students with respect to their sex and physical activity.

Methods: A total of 272 students volunteered to participate in the study.

[Physical activity, dietary habits and plasma lipoproteins in young men and women].

There are studies suggesting that in young women strenuous physical activity and inadequate daily energy intake cause unfavorable changes in lipoprotein profile. However until know data concerning this issue are contradictory, possibly due to small number of participants. This study aimed at evaluation of lipoprotein profile in young men and women with different weekly physical activity together with their dietary habits.