摘要：Objective. To analyze breakfast consumption, regularity of meals, fruit and vegetableconsumption in the Italian university student population on a national level.Design. Descriptive analysis evaluating data taken from the Sportello Salute Giovani(SSG) questionnaire.Participants. 12 000 university students who self-administered a confidential survey.8292 questionnaires were analyzed.Variables measured. Age; sex; self-reported economic status; BMI; number of breakfastand portions of vegetables and portions of fruit usually consumed per week; number ofeating episodes per day; intended weight loss.Analysis. Descriptive and logistic regression analyses were conducted. Gender and agedifferences were tested by c2 and Mann-Whitney tests.Results. 15.8% of males and 26.3% of females declared to consume at least one portionof fruit every day. Similar results were found for vegetable consumption. Age doesnot influence fruit or vegetables consumption, frequency of eating episodes or breakfasthabit. Both a regular breakfast and a higher number of eating episodes are significantlyassociated both with a higher frequency of fruit and vegetables intake.Conclusions and implications. This study underlines the need to promote nutritionaleducation campaigns to increase adherence to nutritional guidelines.
