THE INFLUENCE OF REST DIET AND ZUMBA AEROBIC GYMNASTIC TO THE BODY MASS INDEX TO THE FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENT WITH OVERWEIGHT IN DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION, HEALTH POLITECHNIC KEMENKES MEDAN

Abstract

Nutrition problem in Indonesia is a nutrition multi problem in which the malnutrition has not yet eliminated totally, there is an over nutrition problem. Overweight and obesity is susceptible to the young adults specially to the female adolescent. This is caused by the change of sedentary lifestyle and eating poattern to the western food. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) data in 2011, the obesity rate in the world is increase for twice in 1980. Almost 43 million of child under five have overweight in 2010. One of efforts in solving the overweight and obesity problem is by diet. The alternative diet will be introduced in the society is REST (Regulated balancing lower energi) diet. The application of diet must be followed by physical activities. The physical activities is such as sports or practice. One of suggested sport for the lower of body weight is aerobic gymnastic. The objective of this research is to study the influence of REST diet andZumba Aerobic Gymnastic to the BMI to the female college student with the overweight in Department of Nutrition of Health Polytechnic of Kemenkes Medan.This research is a quasi experiment with pre and post test design. The number of sample in this research are 40 samples that chosen with inclusion criteria. REST diet is implemented in each day and Zumba aerobic gymnastic in duration of ? 200 minutes in a week.The result of research indicates that the average of BMI to the female college student of 40 sample with overweight before the Diet REST intervention and Zumba aerobic gymnastic is 29.30 kg/m2 while the average of BMI to the female college student with overweight after REST diet intervention and Zumba aerobic gumnastic is 25.81 kg/m2 so it indicates the lower of BMI for 3.49 kg/m2 in 3 months.Based on the statistical test with T test Dependent, it obtain that p = 0.001 < 0.05 means there is influence of REST diet and Zuma aerobic Gymnastic to the BMI of the female college student with overweight in Department of Nutrition of Health Polytechnic of Kemenkes Medan.