University of La Salette Incorporated

High School Department

Action Research in Mathematics II (ALGEBRA) Submitted by: Group 2 Submitted to: Mr. Emerson R. Responzo Subject Teacher School Year 2011-2012

The factors that affect the Health of junior students

Submitted by: Bianca G. Bacani Group Leader Members Jeffrey E. De Guzman Jr. Marhk Angelo Q. Lazaro Philip Joshua R. Rimbaud Rona Ann R. Corpuz Mary Elleine R. Paladin

Health is important. Health affects our performances, as a human being we need to maintain our good health. We can be healthy by the foods that we eat and activities that we do. But do we ever think that there are also foods and activities that affect our health? There are foods like Junk foods that unbalance our diet and makes our body weak, lying in your bed or just sitting all day doesnt have any good benefit to us. Thats why we should know on how to love our health.

Table 1
Foods that students eat during Recess Bring your own snack Ask some foods to your classmates Just buy on your school canteen 34 7 115 21.79% 4.48% 8.33%

According to table 1 22% of the junior students prefer to bring their own snack, 4.48% who prefer to ask foods to their classmates and 8.33% prefer to buy their own snack to our school canteen. This means that most of the junior students prefer to buy their own snack than to buy or ask for some foods. Table 2 Students who always taking their breakfast Yes No 110 54 6.70% 3.65%

According to table 2 7% of the junior students are taking their breakfast while 4% of the junior students are not taking their breakfast. This means only 7% students can perform actively on their subjects while 4% are not so active on their subjects. Table 3 Students who thinks that the school canteen serves them a healthy food Yes No Maybe 63 32 80 36.57% 1.84% 45.71%

According to table 3 there is a 37% junior student who thinks that the school canteen serves them a healthy food while there are 2% who thinks that the school canteen is not serving them healthy foods and 46% who says MAYBE. This means that most of the students dont know if the school canteen serves them a healthy food. Table 4 Juniors favorite snack Fruits Junk foods Street foods 45 115 17 20.27% 5.06% 0.92%

According to table 4 20% of the junior students likes fruit as their snack while 5% likes junk foods and 1% likes street foods. This means that junior students are healthy because 20% of the junior students likes fruits as their snack.

Table 5 Students that taking diet supplements Before Yes No 17 22 125 1.21% 13.41% 7.86%

According to table 5 there are 1% of the junior students who use diet supplements before while 13% are using and 8% are not using diet supplements. This means that there students who are not using diet supplements to become healthy. Table 6 Times of drinking milk Once a day Thrice a day Twice a day Never 90 17 33 34 5.17% 1.14% 18.96% 19.54%

According to table 6 junior most of the students d rinks milk once a day while the others are thrice, twice a day and there are also students who dont drink milk. This means that most of the junior students have strong bones because they are drinking milk that has calcium and calcium is good for our bones. Table 7 Grade for our canteen 90-100 80-89 70-79 16 101 50 1.01% 6.36% 3.18%

According to table 7 junior students gave 80-89 as a grade for our canteen. This means that our junior students also know that there are also foods that cant make them healthy. Base from our survey Most of our junior students are smart because they know the foods that can make them healthy but there are also students that knows the good for them but are just use to eat foods that gives nothing to them. From our survey we found out that most of the students reports about our extension canteen because of its annoying smell and foods that they serve.