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A Micro-Survey on Eating Habits Recently, I have made a micro-survey among my ten university friends in order to get a clearer understanding of those contemporary college students eating habits. The target people of this micro-survey is just the ordinary college students, so information is surely gathered by face-to-face conversations with whom the students living around me. In addition, the following spreadsheet made by me was adapted from our text book English for the Travel and Tourism Industry . I altered the items of the wholemeal bread and white bread with bread and steamed stuffed bun, because Chinese people make little distinction between the wholemeal bread and white bread; at the same time, they are more used to eating steamed stuffed bun. Here is the table relating to my micro-survey on eating habits. How many times have you eaten each of these kinds of food or meal during the past seven days ? food categories Times in a week code name A B C D E F G H I J Total times bread 4 1 0 1 0 7 2 1 3 4 23 steamed stuffed bun 2 1 2 3 3 1 5 3 2 3 25 fast food 4 2 1 0 7 2 6 5 4 4 35 a traditional local meal 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 7 a meal with meat 1 5 3 0 2 1 2 3 3 5 25 a meal with vegetables 1 1 5 3 2 5 4 2 3 4 30 junk food 3 7 5 3 0 4 2 8 3 6 41 food prepared from fresh ingredients 1 1 3 3 2 2 1 2 1 3 19 fruits 4 3 5 5 7 2 4 4 1 5 40 yoghourt 5 0 3 6 3 1 0 7 1 2 28 According to this table, it is quite obvious that college students are likely to have much more junk food and fast food. However, they often have realized that junk food or fast food is terribly bad for their health while they are still have much of those kinds of food. There are probably several reasons: They are absorbed by the delicious taste of junk food or fast food ; and they have them for the sake of convenience and time savings. Second, most of the students tend to eat more fruit and vegetables, because they think these food can provide them with necessary fiber and v