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Background: Adolescence is widely defined as the time in life when the developing individual attains the skills and attributes necessary to become a productive and reproductive adult. Objective: to study the dietary habits of school going adolescents and role of family in shaping the habits. Material and methods: This Cross-sectional study was conducted in Mangalore city of Dakshina Kannada also known as South Canara a coastal district situated in the southern part of Karnataka state for a period of two years from November 2014 to September 2016. Adolescents aged 10 to 19 years studying in grade VII to grade X of two selected schools and their parents/guardians. Results: Majority of the adolescents viz., 63.9%, 90.0%, and 68.7% had inadequate intake of proportion of fruits, green leafy vegetables and junk foods per day during the past 7 days respectively. As seen in table 2, gender, number of siblings in family, father literacy and religion were the socio-demographic variables found to have statistically significant association with fruit intake with p<0.05. Conclusions: This study throws light on the existence of various health needs of the adolescents and should be addressed by their parents and they should be offered counseling services. Keywords: Dietary habits, adolescents, fruits, green leafy vegetables, junk foods

national journal of research in community medicine

Dietary habits and family correlates whether family has any role in shaping the dietary habits of adolescents? A school based cross-sectional study from Mangaluru, Karnataka State, India