Time management and healthy food - ascertaining study

• Author: Elena-Simona Indreica
• Position: Transilvania University of Brasov
• Pages: 229-236

Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov

Series VII: Social Sciences • Law • Vol. 12(61) No. 2 – 2019

https://doi.org/10.31926/but.ssl.2019.12.61.2.6

TIME MANAGEMENT AND HEALTHY FOOD -

ASCERTAINING STUDY

Elena-Simona INDREICA1

Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to find out whether there is a

relationship between time management and healthy eating. The objectives

of the study involve exploring the associations between six variables of the

healthy eating dimension and three variables of the time management

dimension. The participants are 163 subjects aged between 18 and 62, both

from urban areas (72.2%) and from rural areas (27.8%). The participants are

females. To test the hypothesis, we developed and used two questionnaires

that addressed issues related to healthy eating and time management. The

results confirmed that there is an association between the two dimensions,

the correlations between the variables being highly significant. The

implications and limitations of the research are also presented.

Key words: time management, healthy eating, nutrition.

1. Introduction

Providing the body with food is one of t he sine qua non conditions of human

existence, which in time has led to numerous concerns for food, both quantitatively and

qualitatively. A topic addressed in many areas, from the culinary or artistic to the

medical one, nutrition remains in the attention of specialists primarily for aspects

related to raising the standard of living. At a global level, only in 1945 the F.A.O. (Food

and Agricultural Organization) is founded within the UN system, with the major

objective of fighting hunger and poverty (Philips, 1981).

The major implications of nutrition in daily life, with a direct impact on health, have been

research topics mainly for the medical field, the specialty literature mentioning a wide range

of issues, from severe diets to complex diets. Leaving aside the problematic aspects of food

production and security, poor eating habits become an equally important issue for public

health (Deshpande et al., 2009). "What?", "How much" and "how?" we eat to improve the

quality of life are questions that are tried to be answered not only in the nutrition field

(Ditlevsen et al., 201 9; Chrysochou et al., 20 10; Dickson- S pillmann et al., 2011), but also in

the fields of medicine (Burke et al., 2012; Rouf & Allman-Farinelli, 2018; Christakis & Fowler,

2007; Muzaffar et al., 2018), psychology (Koftidou et al., 2011; Vollrath et al., 2012; Conner et

al., 2017) or education (Kostanjevec et al., 2011; Wunderlich, 2013).

1 Transilvania University of Braşov, elena.indreica@unitbv.ro