Healthy diet and regular physical activities for support endurance and fitness
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2022-05
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Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
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Balanced diet and regular physical activities are essential for support health status, physical fitness and endurance, and decrease the risk of health disorders and morbidity. Balanced diet that cover physiological requirements and needs is a very important for support physical fitness and improve the quality of recovering processes after physical load. Knowledge and skills of individuals allow making good and right choice of daily essential nutrients and keeping optimal health status and improve physical endurance. The aim of the study to analyse cadets` daily dietary habits and knowledge in nutritional education on the base of questionnaire and elaborate adapted to respondents. Cadets` daily dietary habits and knowledge in nutritional education analysed on the base of questionnaire that elaborated and adapted to respondents of study group. The study group included 73 persons of both gender (male N= 65, and female N= 7) in aged from 20 years until 35 years. Questionnaire included 22 questions about daily dietary habits, menu planning, nutrients levels, food products consumption, and composition. Only 30.5 % of respondents interested into eating adapted dietary patterns and follow to dietary recommendations. Supervision of dietary habits, water consumption, dietary patterns are essential for health capacity support done by 73.6% of respondents. Quality and quantity characteristics of dietary patterns are essential for support physical and mental activity. Balanced and moderate diet is essential for improving working capacities, diminished fatigue, improve concentration capacities and support mental activity as a result provide wellbeing and welfare of individuals.
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balanced diet, dietary education, dietary habits, 3.3 Health sciences, 3.2. Articles or chapters in other proceedings other than those included in 3.1., with an ISBN or ISSN code
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Pļaviņa, L 2022, Healthy diet and regular physical activities for support endurance and fitness. in N Vronska (ed.), 15th International Scientific Conference "Rural Environment. Education. Personality. (REEP)" : proceedings. vol. 15, Rural Environment. Education. Personality. (REEP), Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Jelgava, pp. 215-220, 15th International Scientific Conference: Rural Environment. Education Personality (REEP), Jelgava, Latvia, 13/05/22. https://doi.org/10.22616/REEP.2022.15
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