Nutritional knowledge and food choice in relation with nutritional status among adolescent athletes of sport special class student

Nutritional knowledge is useful in optimizing performance and as a basic knowledge. one of several determining factors for eating behavior. The purpose this paper to analyze the relationship between nutritional knowledge, food choices with status adolescent athletes. research design used was descriptive quantitative total 133 participants simple random sampling. instrument consisted NUKYA (Nutritional Knowledge Young Adult Athletes) questionnaire Food choice questionnaire. results study showed not related (p = 0.188) while selection has been associated 0.042). In multivariate terms contributed only 5.1% status. Accordingly, an educational nutrition program needed well evaluation monitoring health students have good physical quality along selection.