Research on the effectiveness of nutrition and food safety education on the college taekwondo students in china based on local fractional algorithm

Abstract

In order to evaluate the current effectiveness of nutrition and food safety education on the college taekwondo students in China, we analysed the difference of food knowledge, attitudes and practices among the Chinese college taekwondo students on the basis of local fraction algorithm who had or had not have food nutrition and safety education, in order to examine the necessarily of the provision of food nutrition and safety education in the college. Two groups of students were formed with 150 samples in one group respectively. One group of students, named FNSE group, had food nutrition and safety education, while the other, named non-FNSE group, had not. The differences of two group students' knowledge, attitudes and practices of food were compared using the data collected by questionnaires. The results revealed that students in FNSE group had greater knowledge than students in the other one with a significant difference (P =0.013<0.05). Regarding food attitude, food nutrition and safety education do not cause any difference between two groups. FNSE group performs better than non-FNSE group on the nutritional and dietary practice. Since food nutrition and safety education can improve college taekwondo students' food knowledge and influence their dietary behavior, this study empirically supports the implementation of food nutrition and safety education in colleges, and suggests the education should be tailored for college taekwondo students.