First Author : Alina-Georgiana Corduneanu Coordinators: Dr.Raluca Pop Asist.Dr.Remus Sipos University of Medicine And Farmacy,Targu-Mures 1

Introduction Diet evaluation should be a part of general medical assessment and tailored recommendations should be provided. 2

The Food Pyramid Is a graphic expression of nutritional standards,the amounts and types of food that should be consumed daily to mentain health and reduce the risk of developing various diseases related to diet. 3

Objective : The evaluation of the food pyramid of medical students. 4

-cross sectional ; - self administered food frequency questionnaire developed based on the NHANES III and adapted to local dietary habits. -MO Excel and GraphPad Prism 5. Type of study Method Material and Method Statistical analyses 5

medical students of General Medicine at UMF Tg.Mures. sample-76 students divided in two groups Target population 6

age sex environment study year body mass index waist number of meals physical activity frequency food pyramid. Variables analyzed 7

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p=NS Results 4 11

None of the subjects have a normal food pyramid. Results 5 12

None of the subjects have a normal food pyramid. Results 6 13

Results 7 p=

Results 8 RR=0.49, 95% CI – , p=

Results 9 RR=0.68, 95% CI – , p=

As previously stated, young adults tend to have bad dietary habits, fact confirmed by our study.(1) Medical students tend to have bad eating and fitness habits (2) FFQ are time consuming and subjected to memory biases, but are a good nutritional assessment tool. (3) Sweets and fat consumption lead to increased incidence of overweight and obesity. Discussions 17

Medical students tend to consume higher amounts of all food groups and do not engage in regular physical activity. First year students tend to have better eating habits. Future perspective - A nutritional evaluation at the start of each school year with individualised diet recommendations. Conclusions 18

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