Attitudes and concerns regarding the healthy nutrition (2. Conclusions)

Conclusions

The great majority of interviewed persons (62%) consider they have a healthy nutrition:
- The men, persons with a medium education, those with a medium revenue per economy, who live in the small cities or in the Oltenia, Muntenia, Dobrogea regions consider they feed healthier than the other respondents;
- The women, young persons, persons that live in Moldova evaluate themselves more critically, in which regards their own nutrition diet, considering it in a low measure as healthy.
- Around one half of the persons that self appreciated as having a healthy nutrition, in a great measure consumed during the last week less healthy aliments: French fries, candies, chocolate, salami/ parizer/ pudding, mineral juices, margarine, cake/ pie, fid/ melted cheese.

Very many Romanian people are very and specially concerned by the healthy nutrition (87% answered in this way).
The information regarding the healthy nutrition is relatively easy to access, only 18% of the respondents having difficulties in finding out the desired information.

- On average, a very interested person search information at least 3 times a weak, the preferred information sources of the very interested persons being on the following order: specialized magazines, newspapers with specialty rubrics, the physician/ pharmacist;
On average, a less interested persons search such information once a month, the preferred information sources of the less interested persons being the live television and specialty sites. 

Some aliments are more known than others in which regard its support potential or aggressing the people health.
The most known bad aliments for health are, by order, the pork meat (around 2 of respondents mentioned it), followed at high distance by fats at generic mode, sugars, alcoholic drinks, mineral juices. A series of aliments, clearly not recommended by the nutrition specialists are invisible to public opinion, as negative impact on health: white bread, conserves, pasty (under 3% mentions for each one of them). The majority of persons listed only 3 aliments that have to be consumed very rarely because they impair the health.

The most known benefic aliments for health are, by order, the fruits and vegetables, the chicken and fish meat, lactates (milk, cheese).

The chicken meat and lactates may become unhealthy if excessively consumed, if they are too salty or if prepared by frosting. These aliments are under no circumstances supportive conditions of health. Contrary, the very important aliments for a healthy diet have a low visibility, below 7% spontaneous mentions: integral grains, with their most important derivate – dark bread, non mineral water, honey, olives oil or the green salad/ vegetables. The healthy nutrition is seen as adopted by people in extraordinary conditions: if they are ill or if they want to get thinner and less as a general condition for a normal, common life.
- The women, up to 44 years old, consider that the healthy nutrition is adopted by the people that want to get thinner, and the men consider that the healthy nutrition is for the people with different diseases.

- The persons of 45-60 years old consider that it is necessary the time and information to adopt a healthy nutrition and these products are not found in the great stores.

The most known rules to observe at preparing in a healthy manner of aliments are: steam cooking or boil cooking and avoiding the frosting (over 40% spontaneous mentions for each one of them).
The three principles of CAN campaign of the audiovisual environments (avoidance of fats, salt and sugar) have a relatively low visibility (only 2% of the respondents listed all the three of them).
- Upper education men mention the rule of steaming cooking of aliments and the necessity of avoidance of frosting the aliments.
- Upper education women indicate the necessity of consumption of fruits and vegetables in as crude as possible, not treated thermally.
- The persons with elementary education mention the necessity of observance of hygiene rules.
Around 2 of 3 respondents consume daily or almost daily fresh fruits (the most of them are persons of 45-60 years old), and 1 of 5 respondents consume almost daily dinners composed preponderantly by vegetables (the women considerably more than men). 

The most consumed fresh fruits are: apples, oranges and bananas.
One third of respondents have consumed during the last week, one, maximum 2 different fruits. 
- Men consume more than women: bananas, pears, oranges, lemons, and women consume more, relative to men: apples, grapefruit, mandarins/ clementines, grapes.
The most consumed vegetables/ herbals are: tomatoes, carrots and green salad. Around one fifth of respondents have consumed during the last week one, maximum 2 different vegetables.
- Women consume in a greater measure than men green vegetables: onion and green beam, green salad, pease, spinach, nettles, cabbage, but also carrots, radish. Men overpass women in the consumption of tomatoes, onion and garlic (dry). 

Religiosity
The great majority of interviewed Romanians declare themselves orthodox Christians (88%). 64% of them are considered themselves as being religious/ believers in great and very great measure and 51% declared that they totally or partially hold the Lent. 
- Women consider themselves as religious/ believer more than men;
- Male persons and young persons declare that they are religious/ believer in a very low degree. 
- 8% of the respondents declared that they hold the entire Lent. They are in big majority persons in age of 30-44 years old, expert wagers/ with management positions. Wednesday and Friday hold the fast, the persons of 45-60 years old with elementary education.
The motivation of holding the fast is in a great part laicized: 57% of persons that keep this requirement of the Orthodox Church mention the benefit of healthy nutrition. This is, as a matter of fact, the most common reason. The second as frequency of mention is the need to be a good Christian, to keep the order of Church or of the priest, meaning the need to conform to a prescribed, external religion (52% of mentions). The purely religious motivation, which signifies the internalization of external prescription – spiritual fulfillment/ completion – was mentioned by 25% of the persons that hold the fast. The believer/ religious persons tend to adopt a healthy nutrition, but the association between the two conceptions are relatively poor: only 7% of respondents are very religious and adopt the same time a very healthy nutrition. The majority of persons are moderately religious and adopt an averaging healthy diet. The non-religious persons generally adopt a non-healthy nutrition (44% of population of 15-60 years old).