Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania

The alert lifestyle, the great availability and accessibility of foodstuff and the powerful pressure exercised by the food industry by means of mass-media, in order to encourage overconsumption, have disturbed all the elements of food consumers’ behaviour, causing them to miss the nutritional landma...

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Main Authors: Dorin Vicenţiu Popescu, Lelia Voinea, Mihai Teodor Negrea
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Language:English
Published: Editura ASE 2015-11-01
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Online Access:http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2470
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description The alert lifestyle, the great availability and accessibility of foodstuff and the powerful pressure exercised by the food industry by means of mass-media, in order to encourage overconsumption, have disturbed all the elements of food consumers’ behaviour, causing them to miss the nutritional landmarks obtained within family education. Adopting a diet based on quantity instead of quality, due to a bad nutritional education, the modern consumers are both overfed and underfed, two features rarely found in the same body throughout the history. In this context, in order to prevent the nutrition and metabolic disorders, there is the need, more than ever before, of awareness for connecting nutrition and health („you are what you eat”) and the necessity to adopt especially by the new generation of consumers, the basic principles of a balanced diet. With the main aim to highlight the characteristics of food consumption behaviour for the new generation of Romanian consumers, the authors carried out an exploratory research, based on the technique of the food diary through estimation. As for highlighting the potential nutritional imbalances, the authors analysed the medium allowance of energy and macronutrients of the respondents’ diet. Also, it would be a fulfilment that the research results to lead to the subsequent elaboration of a guide for redirecting the food behaviour of young consumers, in order to avoid the nutritional imbalances and to prevent serious illnesses.
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spelling doaj-art-e5e1c18481564f9cadb28d565440ad862025-08-20T02:21:06ZengEditura ASEAmfiteatru Economic1582-91462247-91042015-11-0117Special Issue 912281243Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from RomaniaDorin Vicenţiu Popescu0Lelia Voinea 1Mihai Teodor Negrea2Bucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaBucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaBucharest University of Economic Studies, RomaniaThe alert lifestyle, the great availability and accessibility of foodstuff and the powerful pressure exercised by the food industry by means of mass-media, in order to encourage overconsumption, have disturbed all the elements of food consumers’ behaviour, causing them to miss the nutritional landmarks obtained within family education. Adopting a diet based on quantity instead of quality, due to a bad nutritional education, the modern consumers are both overfed and underfed, two features rarely found in the same body throughout the history. In this context, in order to prevent the nutrition and metabolic disorders, there is the need, more than ever before, of awareness for connecting nutrition and health („you are what you eat”) and the necessity to adopt especially by the new generation of consumers, the basic principles of a balanced diet. With the main aim to highlight the characteristics of food consumption behaviour for the new generation of Romanian consumers, the authors carried out an exploratory research, based on the technique of the food diary through estimation. As for highlighting the potential nutritional imbalances, the authors analysed the medium allowance of energy and macronutrients of the respondents’ diet. Also, it would be a fulfilment that the research results to lead to the subsequent elaboration of a guide for redirecting the food behaviour of young consumers, in order to avoid the nutritional imbalances and to prevent serious illnesses.http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2470new generation of consumerseating behaviourenergy intakeguideline daily amountsnutritional imbalance.
spellingShingle Dorin Vicenţiu Popescu
Lelia Voinea
Mihai Teodor Negrea
Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania
Amfiteatru Economic
new generation of consumers
eating behaviour
energy intake
guideline daily amounts
nutritional imbalance.
title Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania
title_full Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania
title_fullStr Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania
title_full_unstemmed Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania
title_short Nutritional Imbalance – Dominant Consumption Behaviour of Young People from Romania
title_sort nutritional imbalance dominant consumption behaviour of young people from romania
topic new generation of consumers
eating behaviour
energy intake
guideline daily amounts
nutritional imbalance.
url http://www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro/ArticolEN.aspx?CodArticol=2470
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