Examining the Nourishment Status of Employees of One of the Military Universities of Tehran in the Month of Ramadan

Emphasis on planning for having proper food consumption in order to have healthy nourishment in days of Ramadan month has greatly drawn attention. It is essential to be aware of the usual behavior of people before planning an educational program. Therefore, this research has been done in order to examine nourishment status of employees of one of the military universities of Tehran. This research is a descriptive sectional research. Sampling from among the employees of one of the military universities of Tehran has been done randomly. The groups under research were groups who did not have limitations in fulfilling their duty to fast, and at the last day of Ramadan month the sampling was done randomly. SPSS program has been used in order to investigate and analyze the data. 117 persons were studied in this research. The results of the research shows that there is a meaningful relation between person’s weight and how much he consumes food (P = 0.001). Among food materials, for the persons under research there is a meaningful relation between meat consumption and weight (P = 0.005). In most of the persons (41.2 percent) consumption of sugary materials was between 40 to 100 grams. This shows that meat consumption in 44.4 percent of those persons is between 200-300 grams. Liquid consumption in 40/9 percent of the persons has been reported to be between 6-8 glasses a day. Also consumption of bread is between 100-200 grams in 46/5 percent of the cases. 44.4 percent of the persons under research used less than one glass of milk in one day. Most of the people under research (34.1 percent) consumed between 2 to 3 units of fruit a day. Regarding the achieved results of this study it seems like precise policy making is essential in order to offer theory-based educational programs and controlling and evaluating them in order to improve manners of eating in Ramadan month.