[Surveying situation of active and inactive elder men nutrition health in Shiraz city]

ABSTRACT

Toady with growth of different sciences, amount of dies decrease and life hope is going to increase, so world population tends to old ages. In old ages physiologic changes effect on nutrition needs, therefore nutrition cares have the most important role in their health improvement. The goal of this study is the surveying situation of active and inactive elder men nutrition health in Shiraz city. This study has a descriptive method and for these purpose, we randomly selected 156 elder men upper than 60 years old from 4 main park's of Shiraz as statistical sample. They divided into two elder groups by their physical activities 'active elder' and 'inactive elder'. We use of investigate health situation questioner as our Instrument in this study. Findings show that 34.61 Percent of 156 elder men [35 active and 19 inactive elder] have a suitable nutrition situation and 37.81 percent of them [28 active and 31 inactive elder] are in average danger of malnutrition and 27.56 percent [15 active and 28 inactive elder] of them are in high danger of malnutrition. Results of this study show that generally old ages don't have a satisfy nutrition situation, although active old age have a better level rather than inactive ones. Therefore physical activities could have a positive role in old age healthy nutrition. It is necessary to plan suitable strategies for protecting and educating old age nutrition in order to improve and correct their diet. Also propagation of physical activities by organization and vast media is suggested