Kualitas Menu Makan Siang Kaitannya dengan Status Gizi dan Tingkat Kebugaran Siswa Sekolah Dasar di Kota Bogor

Abstract

Indonesia is still facing nutrition problems which there are still many nutritional cases. Generally, malnutrition’s level of elementary school students in Indonesia ranges from 35% to 65%. The purpose of this study was to analyzed the quality of lunch menu in relation to nutritional status and fitness level of elementary school students in Bogor. The present study used a case study design with 40 students of elementary school. The data was processed with Microsoft Excel 2007 and analyzed with the Statistical Program for Social Science (SPSS) 16.0 for Windows. Generally, the quality of lunch menu in both groups of samples are in the category of less qualified and still need improvement to meet the balance nutrition. The result of this study showed that there was no significant relationship (p>0.1) between knowledge of nutrition, fitness levels, and the quality of lunch menu with nutritional status. However, there was a significant relationship (p<0.1) between the quality of lunch menu with fitness levels.