Connections of physical activity and dietary habits in 5-8 grades students

The purpose of the work: to establish connections between physical activity and dietary habit in 5-8 grade students. The methodology of work: questionnaire survey, mathematical statistics. The results: the biggest part of 5-8 grade students (54,4 %) have satisfactory dietary habits. 27.2 % by 5-8 grade students have poor dietary habits and only the last part (18,4 %) of 5-8 grade students have good dietary habits. Lower grade students are more encouraged to be physically active in comparison to their older peers. Physical activity is not sufficient among the group of interest. Lower grade students have indicated more often that they exercise to reach results in comparison to older students (statistically significant). Students who more or less agree that they have sufficient variety of healthy food to choose from also tend to think that there are good access to information about healthy food in school cafeterias and vice versa. Conclusions: it was concluded that the third of interviewed 5-8 grade students do not get sufficient amount of physical activity. Evaluating results by grade it was detected that the higher grade students are in, the less they are likely to get sufficient amount of physical activity, but is not a significant trend (p>0,05). It was detected that 5-6 grade students more after regular exercise to reach results in comparison to 7-8 grade students (p0,05). Upon evaluation of connection between physical activity and dietary habits, it was concluded that the 55,8 % of student who do not get sufficient amount of the physical activity and the 53,4 % of students who do - eat satisfactory diet. Although it can be noted that 5-6 grade students who are sufficiently physically active tend to eat better diets compared to students who do not get enough exercise