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Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”)
Nutrition is a major influential factor in optimizing human health and environmental sustainability. Medical students often do not follow national dietary guideline recommendations. Raising awareness of a healthy lifestyle is important as physicians with healthy lifestyle behaviors are more likely t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9920441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030580 |
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author | Helbach, Anna Dumm, Moritz Moll, Katharina Böttrich, Tim Leineweber, Can Gero Mueller, Wiebke Matthes, Jan Polidori, Maria Cristina |
author_facet | Helbach, Anna Dumm, Moritz Moll, Katharina Böttrich, Tim Leineweber, Can Gero Mueller, Wiebke Matthes, Jan Polidori, Maria Cristina |
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description | Nutrition is a major influential factor in optimizing human health and environmental sustainability. Medical students often do not follow national dietary guideline recommendations. Raising awareness of a healthy lifestyle is important as physicians with healthy lifestyle behaviors are more likely to counsel on nutrition. Our study aims to evaluate a Germany-wide online lecture series on nutritional medicine, “Eat This!”. Before and after the course, 520 medical students who participated and 64 who did not participate in the course (comparison group) filled out an online survey. To assess the students’ dietary habits, a validated FFQ was used. According to this questionnaire, only 31% of the lecture participants consumed enough fruits and 24% consumed enough vegetables, while almost half of the students exceeded the recommended maximum amount of crisps and sweets. After attending the lecture series, guideline adherence with respect to fruits and vegetables showed a significant increase, as did awareness of healthy nutrition and percentage of students with low-risk lifestyle habits. Our results show that low-threshold approaches, such as “Eat This!”, can positively influence the dietary behaviors and lifestyle habits of medical students. This can help future doctors fulfill their role in the fight against the global burden of non-communicable diseases. |
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spelling | pubmed-99204412023-02-12 Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) Helbach, Anna Dumm, Moritz Moll, Katharina Böttrich, Tim Leineweber, Can Gero Mueller, Wiebke Matthes, Jan Polidori, Maria Cristina Nutrients Article Nutrition is a major influential factor in optimizing human health and environmental sustainability. Medical students often do not follow national dietary guideline recommendations. Raising awareness of a healthy lifestyle is important as physicians with healthy lifestyle behaviors are more likely to counsel on nutrition. Our study aims to evaluate a Germany-wide online lecture series on nutritional medicine, “Eat This!”. Before and after the course, 520 medical students who participated and 64 who did not participate in the course (comparison group) filled out an online survey. To assess the students’ dietary habits, a validated FFQ was used. According to this questionnaire, only 31% of the lecture participants consumed enough fruits and 24% consumed enough vegetables, while almost half of the students exceeded the recommended maximum amount of crisps and sweets. After attending the lecture series, guideline adherence with respect to fruits and vegetables showed a significant increase, as did awareness of healthy nutrition and percentage of students with low-risk lifestyle habits. Our results show that low-threshold approaches, such as “Eat This!”, can positively influence the dietary behaviors and lifestyle habits of medical students. This can help future doctors fulfill their role in the fight against the global burden of non-communicable diseases. MDPI 2023-01-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9920441/ /pubmed/36771284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030580 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Helbach, Anna Dumm, Moritz Moll, Katharina Böttrich, Tim Leineweber, Can Gero Mueller, Wiebke Matthes, Jan Polidori, Maria Cristina Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) |
title | Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) |
title_full | Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) |
title_fullStr | Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) |
title_full_unstemmed | Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) |
title_short | Improvement of Dietary Habits among German Medical Students by Attending a Nationwide Online Lecture Series on Nutrition and Planetary Health (“Eat This!”) |
title_sort | improvement of dietary habits among german medical students by attending a nationwide online lecture series on nutrition and planetary health (“eat this!”) |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9920441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36771284 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu15030580 |
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