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      The Association between Taking Dietary Supplements and Healthy Habits among Korean Adults: Results from the Fifth Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey (2010–2012)

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          Abstract

          Background

          Recently, the number of people interested in health in South Korea has increased, and the rate of dietary supplement use is rising. Researchers have hypothesized that the rate of practicing healthy habits is higher among those who use dietary supplements than those who do not. Therefore, this study aimed to discover the association between taking dietary supplements and practicing various healthy habits in the Korean, adult population.

          Methods

          The sample included 15,789 adults over 19 years old who participated in the fifth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The user group was defined as those taking dietary supplements for more than 2 weeks during the previous year or once during the past month. Measures for the seven healthy habits were based on those included in the Alameda study and were analyzed accounting for the complex sampling design.

          Results

          The rate of taking dietary supplements was significantly higher in women, middle aged participants, urban residents, those with a higher income, those with a higher education level, and nonsmokers as well as among women with a moderate subjective health status, women who limited their alcohol content, and women with dyslipidemia. In the adjusted analysis, the rate of performing three of the 'Alameda 7' habits—eating breakfast regularly, restricting snacking, and limiting drinking—was higher in the female dietary supplement user group than in the other groups. Women practiced more healthy habits and had a higher dietary supplement intake rate than men.

          Conclusion

          We found that taking dietary supplements in Korean adults is highly associated with demographic and social factors. Taking dietary supplements had a relationship with dietary habits, and there was no significant association between dietary supplement and other healthy habits. Thus in the health clinic, we suggest that taking dietary supplements complements a patient's healthy habits, with the exception of dietary habits, for health promotion.

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                Journal
                Korean J Fam Med
                Korean J Fam Med
                KJFM
                Korean Journal of Family Medicine
                The Korean Academy of Family Medicine
                2005-6443
                2092-6715
                May 2016
                26 May 2016
                : 37
                : 3
                : 182-187
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Family Medicine, Bundang Jesaeng Hospital, Seongnam, Korea.
                [2 ]Department of Family Medicine, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.
                [3 ]Department of Biostatistics, The Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
                Author notes
                Corresponding Author: Kyung-Shik Lee. Tel: +82-31-779-0152, Fax: +82-31-779-0169, pinealbody@ 123456hanmail.net
                Article
                10.4082/kjfm.2016.37.3.182
                4891321
                27274390
                b44795ad-43b3-4131-81cf-a536021f7ae6
                Copyright © 2016 The Korean Academy of Family Medicine

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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                : 19 August 2015
                : 16 September 2015
                : 07 October 2015
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                Medicine
                dietary supplements,health behavior,health promotion
                Medicine
                dietary supplements, health behavior, health promotion

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