Nutritional Status, Health Status. and Lifestyle on Lacto Vegetarian and Non Vegetarian Women

Abstract

Vegetarian diet is one of the lifestyle changes. The aims of this study was to analyse the differences of nutritional status, health status, and lifesytle and to analyse correlation between nutritonal status, health status, with lifestyle in lakto vegetarian groups and non lakto vegetarian groups. The design of this study was cross-sectional study include 80 women aged 40-65 years old and was conducted in Bali Province. Data were analyzed using Man Whitney U Test and difference test and Rank Spearman relationship test. This research was funded by Neys-van Hoogstraten Foundation, the Netherlands. The measurement of characteristic of subjek and lifestyle used questioner. The measuerment of body weight used digital scales. Body height was measurement used staturemater, blood pressure was measurement used sphygmomanometer and Hb levels used cyanmethemoglobin. Nonvegetar-ian group had higher proportion of obesity and hypertension (50%; 37,5%) than lacto vegetarian groups. Lacto vegetarian groups had higher anemia status than non vegetarian groups. The result show there were significant differences between nutritional status and consumption coffee into two groups (p<0,05). There were show no correlation between nutritonal status, health status, with lifestyle (p>0.05). This study indicates lacto vegetarian group had better nutritional status, health status, and lifestyle than non-vegetarian group. Lacto-vegetarian group had higher risk of anemia.