Nutrition habits of technology and business school students

One of the tasks established in the Lithuanian Health Programme for 2014–2025 is to promote habits of healthy nutrition. Numerous studies of researchers focus on healthy nutrition as one of the key factors for a full-fledged life. The topic of nutrition habits is relevant to the people of all age and social groups. The goal of the research is to study nutrition habits of 16 to18 year-old students of The School of Technology and Business. To achieve the set goal theoretical (scientific literature) and empirical (questionnaire survey, semi-structured interviews) research methods were applied. 131 student of The School of Technology and Business at the age 16 to18 years (future chefs, car mechanics, logisticiansfreight forwarders and furniture makers) and 5 teachers were surveyed. The obtained results revealed that the students have true knowledge about healthy nutrition, however insufficient. Future chefs possess more knowledge about healthy nutrition, although having compared nutrition habits of this group to the other ones, no significant differences were observed. The students have not formed the habit of regular eating, daily breakfast, not enough time is allocated for lunch. Most of them do not have a daily habit to drink water, eat fresh fruit and vegetables. The students check shelf life of the food products they buy; however, many of them are not interested in the composition of these products. The teachers who participated in the research noted that students analyse their nutrition habits insufficiently