The objectives of this research are; 1) To compare the nutrition knowledge of metabolic syndrome patients before and after was educated by 3 methods as follows: Educate by nutrition manual using Educate by suggestion and Educate by telephone; 2) To compare the nutrition knowledge differences of metabolic syndrome patients classified by 3 educated methods: nutrition manual suggestion and telephone using. Nutrition manual and Questionnaires were analyzed. Statistics which was used in analysis are Frequency Percentage Mean Standard Deviation t-test F-test and Scheffe’s Method. The results show the comparison of the results of the differences in knowledge of nutrition in metabolic syndrome patients as classified by 3 educational method found that metabolic syndrome patients’ nutritional knowledge between those who were educated by nutrition manual use only those educated by suggestion and those educated by communication device differed statistically significantly at a .05 level. Using Scheffe’s Method the multiple comparison test of nutrition knowledge of metabolic syndrome patients as classified by educational method found that the metabolic syndrome patients who were educated using the nutrition manual had a greater understanding of nutrition than the metabolic syndrome patients educated by suggestion. Moreover metabolic syndrome patients who were educated using the nutrition manual had a greater knowledge of nutrition than the metabolic syndrome patients who were educated using a communications device.

This research has four main purposes. The first is to explore food consumption behavior of housewives in Engineering Regiment of Burachat Camp Ratchaburi province. The second the third and the fourth are to study relations between basic individual factors environmental factors and nutritional knowledge and food consumption behaviors respectively. A group of 245 20-59 year-old housewives living in Engineering Regiment of Burachat Camp Ratchaburi was sampled with stratified random sampling approach. Data were gathered through questionnaire and statistically analyzed for percentage mean standard deviation and Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The study found that most respondents were in the age group of 31 and 40 years old (52.65%) with lower than bachelor degree education (72.65%) two children (64.49%) and average monthly income of 8001 to 13000 baht (42.86%). Environmental factors were in medium level (71.43%) and nutritional knowledge were quite good at 34.69%. Finally overall food consumption behavior was in medium level at 49.80%. According to the results of correlations between basic individual factors environmental factors and nutritional knowledge and food consumption behaviors it was found that environmental factors had significant relations to food consumption behavior (p<0.05).