1Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hassan
2Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, Kodagu Institute of Medical Sciences, Madikeri
3Postgraduate Student, Department of Physiology, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hassan, Karnataka
4Professor and Head, Department of Physiology, Hassan Institute of Medical Sciences, Hassan, Karnataka
Online published on 2 August, 2016.
The present study was conducted to compare the hand grip strength and endurance time in vegetarians (V group) and mixed vegetarians (MV group).
This study is a cross sectional study includes 201 subjects of age group 20–45 years, among them 98 were vegetarians and 103 were mixed vegetarians.
Physical characteristics of ‘V’ group, the mean height (mt) was 1.61+8.58,the mean weight (Kg) was 60+9.34 and the mean BMI (Kg/mt2) was 23.08+2.48. The physical characteristics of ‘MV’ group, the mean height (mt) was 1.64+9.46,the mean weight (Kg) was 66+9.62 and the mean BMI (Kg/mt2) was 24.52+2.78. Our study shows that the hand grip strength in ‘V’ group was 25.85 ± 6.65 and in ‘MV’ group was 32.75 ± 8.65. p value highly significant in ‘MV’ group (p<0.0001). The endurance time in ‘V’ group was 0.69 ± 0.38 and in ‘MV’ group was 1.16 ± 0.73. There was a significant difference in endurance time between ‘V’ group and ‘MV’ group with p value highly significant in ‘MV’ group (p<0.0001).
Mixed vegetarian group are beer compared to vegetarian group with respect to strength exercises like hand grip strength and endurance time. Mixed vegetarian diet which includes regular vegetarian diet and occasional non vegetarian diet is helpful as far as physical fitness is considered.
Hand grip Strength, Endurance time, Vegetarian, mixed Vegetarian
