Abstract: India has the second highest number of obese children in the world after China, according to a study that has found that 14.4 million children in the country have excess weight. Off late overweight and obesity, has gained a foothold. Changing dietary pattern towards energy-dense and high-fat diets, together with the rising urbanization that has brought about a more sedentary life style, and that to lead obesity. Methods: This is a cross sectional study conducted in the Government and private schools of Madurai city among the students of class 7th to 12th std. Schools were selected simple purposive from the list of secondary and higher secondary schools of Madurai city. All the children belonging to either gender in the age group of 13 - 18 years, who were apparently healthy, were included in the study. Questionnaire has been used for gathering information with respect to the dietary pattern and the frequency of consumption of various types of non- vegetarian foods for the past one-month was collected on all the overweight and obese subjects. Results: In this study, girls were more commonly overweight (74 out of 308, 4.16%) than boys (50 out of 202, 4%) while obesity prevalence was comparable in both the sexes (152 out of 202 i.e. 1.32% in boys and 234 out of 308 i.e. 1.30% in girls). Conclusion: Pearson’s correlation shows that BMI is significantly related to all the asked dietary habits at 0.01(2-tailed) level and it consumption of mutton and chicken is positively correlated with BMI (.017, .061). Simultaneously consumption of non-veg fish, egg were negatively correlated with BMI.
Keywords: Adolescents, BMI, Diet pattern, Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India. Obesity.
Title: Impact of Food habits on Obesity among school going Adolescent in Madurai District, Tamil Nadu, India
Author: B.Bhuvaneswari, S.Parameshwari
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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