Abstract:

The aim of the article is to recognize the opinion of the inhabitants of Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship on a health-promoting lifestyle and significance of the internet in its promotion.  The inhabitants assessed themselves in those terms. During the tests there have been selected some factors impacting health-promoting lifestyles of the inhabitants, i.e. factors related to nutrition, physical activeness, sleep, medical surveillance. In particular, attention was paid to consuming organic food by the inhabitants as those of greater nutritional value, however, not always considered as a health-promoting factor.  They were deemed to be one of multiple factors. The necessity of promoting actions, including the Internet actions, were evaluated. 

The obtained test results including recommendations for selected factors impacting health-promoting lifestyle, proposed by i.e. World Health Organization (WHO), in compliance with local and EU regulations.

The research hypothesis presumed that the majority of surveyed inhabitants has, as for the majority of the factors, health-promoting lifestyles. However, people consuming organic food are in the minority, they seldom purchase and are hardly ever interested in buying organic products via the internet.

There is significant connection between the sex and purchasing organic food on the Internet.

The conducted analysis has proved that most of the surveyed, has, as for the majority of the factors, health-promoting lifestyles. Health-promoting attitudes rmainly referred to consuming balanced meals, taking up general physical activeness, proper duration of sleep.

Antihealth-promoting attitudes as for the majority of the surveyed inhabitants mainly to consuming sweets, lack of control of taken fat, lack of exercise to keep one's balance, helping to avoid falls, which is particularly significant for the elderly. 

The inhabitants, however, indicate a further demand in those terms, including using the Internet. The obtained results might be a recommendation for the institutions and organizations when forming health programmes, promoting and managing the above actions.