Hubungan Kebiasaan Mengonsumsi Makanan Cepat Saji dengan Indeks Massa Tubuh pada Mahasiswa Fakultas Kedokteran Ukrida Angkatan 2016 Periode September 2017

Vina Cyrilla (UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN KRIDA WACANA)
Gracia JMT Winaktu (UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN KRIDA WACANA)
Susanty Dewi Winata (UNIVERSITAS KRISTEN KRIDA WACANA)

Jurnal Kedokteran Meditek
VOL. 24 NO. 65 JANUARI-MARET 2018

Globalization and urbanization have a considerable impact in eating habits. These have caused many people eat fast food which contains high calories and low nutrition. Eating fast food has become a risk factor for obesity. This study was a cross-sectional analytics study which was conducted in September 2017. Subjects of 85 active students of the 2016 batch from faculty of medicine Ukrida were selected by a simple random sampling. The study found that among the surveyed students, 37.6% rarely ate fast food, whereas 62.4% usually ate fast food. The chi-square analysis obtained a p value of 0.000 which indicated that there was a relationship between fast food consumption habit with Body Mass Index. It was also found that age and gender didn’t have relationship with Body Mass Index.Keywords: habit of consumption, fast food, body mass index