Slimming students survey Available to Purchase

John N Auckland BSc, PhD, Clive Hunt BSc, MPhil and Yvette Whelbourn describe an investigation they carried out to discover how much a certain group of students knew about some aspects of nutrition. The students, from The Polytechnic, Huddersfield, had made a voluntary decision to slim and were also self catering. The authors found that, in general, female students were nutritionally more knowledgeable than males, having a better idea of relative energy values and which foods it is necessary to reduce in order to slim. However, the intake of several vitamins and minerals fell substantially below UK recommended levels during slimming and the results therefore suggest that self‐catering students would benefit from nutritional advice and possibly access to specifically formulated slimming diets