**3. Results**

### *3.1. Attitudes and Lifestyle Factors toward Nutrition*

At the beginning of the survey, attitude-related 1–5 Likert questions were listed in order to characterize different age groups based on their opinion about health and age-related aspects of nutrition (Table 3).

**Table 3.** Attitudes toward nutrition in different age groups (level of agreement, 1–5 Likert scale).


According to the results, each age group perceived strong connection between nutrition and health. While all age groups agreed that "healthy diet has a grea<sup>t</sup> impact on the prevention of diseases in older adults," the oldest group attached significantly more importance to "for older adults, diet has a more important role in health" compared to other age groups. The importance of a healthy diet increases with age according to the responses.

The questionnaire also contained lifestyle-related multiple choice questions, which allowed further differentiation of age groups (Table 4).


**Table 4.** Perception of health-related lifestyle factors in different age groups.

Significant difference between age groups was not found in terms of self-estimation of health, the need for weight loss, use of dietary supplements, and alcohol consumption habits. Younger respondents exercise more often, although they still tend to think it is below the required level. Stressful lifestyle and not enough sleep are the most common problems reported by the middle-aged groups. Older adults rarely smoke and this group has significantly more time to eat and cook than the younger respondents. Consumers between 30 and 39 years and over 60 years state that they pay more attention to diet compared to the average.
