Influence of Social Network on The Dietary Pattern of University Students

Abstract

The motivation behind this paper was to set up the dietary mindfulness and changing of eating examples of the varsity understudies by the impact of social network and how these influence their eating behavior. After an SPSS analysis on the study we have discovered that 22.1 percent respondent is maximum and which is belongs to the age group of 20 years old student. 94.3% students uses social network. Out of 714 students, 400 students use social network in order to keep in touch with friends and family and 31 students use social network for the purpose of food and diet and the percentage is 4.3. Out of 714, 353 number of students follow the food and diet related pages and the percentage is 49.4.The experiments shows that 53.2 percent students eat food from recommended pages than homemade food and from that percentage we can easily say that social network has impact on the changes of food consumption of students. The percentage of tend to follow the food and diet related pages on social network that is recommended is 54.2 percent and the number is 387 out of 714. 45.4% students said that their food preferences are changing because of food pages where 35.7% students do verify the recommended food and diet related pages and rest of the students follow the food and diet related pages without any verification. Most of the students think and believe that the food and diet related pages have impact on dietary pattern while some of them are unsure about the fact that these pages have impact or not. Though a few student disagreed about the usefulness of food and diet related pages.