The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of fad dieting as a method to lose weight among male and female college students. A total of 710 students participated in this study. Fad dieting was surveyed using a questionnaire about 11 fad diet methods. The mean age of the subjects was 21.4 years for males and 20.4 years for females. The proportion of students who had experience trying to lose weight was 52.8% for males and 78.6% for females (p<0.001). The diet method employed by the highest number of participants was the half meal diet (27.6% for males, 43.9% for females), followed by the cereal diet (8.8% for males, 43.9% for females), fasting (9.9% for males, 21.4% for females), and the chicken breast diet (13.1% for males, 9.2% for females). The female students were more likely than the males to try fad diets other than the chicken breast diet and the Atkins diet. The most frequent side effect of fad dieting was the yo-yo effect, followed by binge eating, weakness, anemia, and so on. The proportion of students who indicated that nutrition education is needed for healthy dieting was 39.1% for males and 45.4% for females. From these results, we concluded that a high percentage of college students attempt to lose weight through fad diets, with some gender differences. Therefore, in the future, nutrition education programs should focus more attention on providing healthy dieting methods to young college students to help them lose weight.

Abstract
 서 론
 연구대상 및 방법
 1. 조사 대상 및 기간
 2. 조사내용
  1) 설문지의 개발
  2) 일반사항
  3) 다이어트 시도 여부 및 이유, 다이어트에 영양교육 요구도
  4) 유행 다이어트 종류에 따른 경험 여부 및 특성
 3. 통계처리
 결과 및 고찰
 요약 및 결론
 References

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• 김연진(강원대학교 의과대학 예방의학과) | Yeonjin Kim
• 정진실(강원대학교 식품영양학과) | Jinshil Chung
• 연지영(서원대학교 식품영양학과) | Jee-Young Yeon Corresponding author