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Use of Nutrition Supplements for the Elderly
Tenglerová, Dana ; Kulhavá, Miluše (advisor) ; Podaná, Jana (referee)
The primary goal of my thesis was to describe the use of food supplements by seniors. Most seniors use medications prescribed by physicians and some of them also use over-the-counter food supplements that are more easily accessible. Seniors, in particular, are susceptible to considering food supplements to be as efficient as medications under the incessant influence of massive advertising on TV and other media, and many of them are willing to spend considerable amounts from their income on such preparations. In the theoretical part of my thesis, I define the term 'senior', describe the traits of ageing, and focus on the topic of nutrition in this age group. Then I focus on food supplements in general and their distinction from medications. The end of the theoretical part is focused on advertising and its impact on seniors. In the research part, which was prepared by means of a quantitative research, I examine the use of food supplements among seniors aged over 65, hospitalised at the Slaný Hospital. A total of 100 respondents were addressed, and 95 questionnaires were used at the end. The research shows that 60 % of the respondents use food supplements regularly or occasionally. One of the sub-goals of the thesis was determining the financial burden for seniors in purchasing the preparations....
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Use of Nutrition Supplements for the Elderly
Tenglerová, Dana ; Kulhavá, Miluše (advisor) ; Podaná, Jana (referee)
The primary goal of my thesis was to describe the use of food supplements by seniors. Most seniors use medications prescribed by physicians and some of them also use over-the-counter food supplements that are more easily accessible. Seniors, in particular, are susceptible to considering food supplements to be as efficient as medications under the incessant influence of massive advertising on TV and other media, and many of them are willing to spend considerable amounts from their income on such preparations. In the theoretical part of my thesis, I define the term 'senior', describe the traits of ageing, and focus on the topic of nutrition in this age group. Then I focus on food supplements in general and their distinction from medications. The end of the theoretical part is focused on advertising and its impact on seniors. In the research part, which was prepared by means of a quantitative research, I examine the use of food supplements among seniors aged over 65, hospitalised at the Slaný Hospital. A total of 100 respondents were addressed, and 95 questionnaires were used at the end. The research shows that 60 % of the respondents use food supplements regularly or occasionally. One of the sub-goals of the thesis was determining the financial burden for seniors in purchasing the preparations....
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Nutritional habits of Czech athletes with focus on nutrition supplements use.
Ticháček, Jiří ; Coufalová, Klára (advisor) ; Petr, Miroslav (referee)
Title: Nutrition habits of Czech athletes with focus on nutrition supplements use. Objectives: The aim of this work is to map the eating habits and nutrition supplements use by athletes in the Czech Republic. Methods: In this work, we have used the method of public inquiry. The inquiry was distributed over many sport centres and facilities around the Czech Republic. 1373 inquiries were opened and 1064 of them returned filled in. The revision of the returned inquiries with sorting out only properly filled in ones, which provided the required information for further analysis, followed subsequently. There were 1027 inquiries from athletes from 75 cities of the Czech Republic used. 752 men and 275 women (age 7 to 54 years) from sports: athletics, basketball, football, handball, judo, swimming, taekwondo, triathlon and volleyball have participated the survey. Results: We found out, that approximately 79 % of Czech athletes do care about their nutrition and keep to the consummation of 4 to 6 meals per day. Semi - occasionally people choose the second dinner as a meal in their regime, only 30 % of respondents abide to this. Various "dietary programmes" were at some time in life tried mostly by women, where the frequency rises with the age. However, only around 26 % of the athletes have ever tried one of...
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