PL
Celem badań było poznanie społecznych różnic w sposobie żywienia młodzieży uczęszczającej do szkół ponadgimnazjalnych województwa mazowieckiego. Wyniki wykazały, że jakość żywienia młodzieży z rodzin o wysokim wykształceniu rodziców była częściej zgodna z zasadami prawidłowego żywienia w porównaniu z żywieniem badanych uczniów z rodzin o podstawowym lub zawodowym wykształceniu rodziców.
EN
The aim of the study was to evaluate social differences in diet of 16-18 years old youth from 60 randomly selected upper secondary schools from Mazowieckie Voivodoship. The main instrument used in this research was a questionnaire. The youth were classified into two contrasting groups depending on the parents' education level: the lower social stratum (parents had elementary or technical education) and the upper social stratum (both parents had university degree or one parent had secondary education and the other one had university degree. The nutritional data were based on 24-hour diet recall. The analysis revealed significant influence of social differences (measured in terms of parents' level of education) on youth's diet. The daily menus of youth from the upper social stratum obtained positive scores more often than the daily menus of youth from the lower social stratum. The diet of youth from upper social stratum more frequently than that of the other group contained: milk and milk products, fishes and raw vegetables and fruits. Furthermore, it was observed that the diet of many pupils from upper secondary schools was not satisfactory. As inadequate nutrition habits formed during adolescence can have negative effect on adults' health it seems crucial to develop educational models directed both to pupils and to their parents and to apply them in elementary schools already. It seems equally crucial as well to try to lessen the social contrasts.