Table 1. Age and status of practice healthy diet in the subjects

Boys (n=282) Girls (n=259) Total (n=541) p-value
Age (yrs) 16.65±0.071) 16.56±0.07 16.61±0.05 0.3614
Status of practice healthy diet
Proportion with acceptable fat intake (%) 188(67.27)2) 167(63.92) 355(65.68) 0.4391
Proportion with sodium intake ≤2,000 mg/day (%) 50(18.38) 97(38.12) 147(27.77) <0.0001
Proportion with fruit & vegetable intake ≥500 g/day (%) 41(13.80) 24(9.09) 65(11.56) 0.1025
Proportion using nutrition label information in food selection (%) 73(25.73) 86(33.19) 159(29.28) 0.0489
Score3)
0 44(15.83) 33(13.40) 77(14.67) 0.0117
1 135(47.27) 109(41.26) 244(44.41)
2 93(33.05) 87(33.29) 180(33.17)
3 9(3.56) 29(11.74) 38(7.45)
4 1(0.29) 1(0.31) 2(0.30)
Data represent mean±SE.
n(%).
Score is the number of parameters that met the target-specific values of practicing healthy diet.