DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i05.017

Pages: 1957-1963

The university and college arenas represent the final opportunity for nutritional education for large number of students from the educator’s perspective. The purpose of this study is to describe eating habits and behaviours among Public Health faculty students at Benghazi University and the association of these habits and behaviours with body mass index (BMI). A random sample of 85 students (14 male, 71 females) with mean age 21.68 years, and mean BMI was 23.3±4.8 kg/m2. Almost half of the students (50.6%) expressed having three meals per day. 72.9 % of the subjects consumed dinner 6-7 days per week. Nearly half (49.4%) of the subjects consumed two snacks per day. Weight loss efforts during last six months and doing exercise to lose weight were associated with BMI of the subjects.