Healthy eating self-schema and nutrition Behavior

The nutrition behavior of female college students who differed in healthy eater self-schema status was investigated. Forty-nine female students enrolled in a nutrition class (27 schematics, 22 nonschematics) provided 4-day food diaries. Analyses revealed that students who saw themselves as health), eaters consumed more fiber and less total fat than did those without such a self-schema. In addition. higher percentages of healthy eater schematics met the dietary guidelines for fiber, total fat. and dietary cholesterol. No group differences were found for either saturated fat or sugar intake.