Open AccessIs small town India falling into the nutritional trap of metro cities? A study in school-going adolescents
Author(s) -
Tabassum Nawab,
Zulfia Khan,
Iqbal Khan,
M. Athar Ansari
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of family medicine and primary care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2278-7135
pISSN - 2249-4863
DOI - 10.4103/2249-4863.197296
Subject(s) - overweight , medicine , obesity , environmental health , anthropometry , logistic regression , demography , cross sectional study , developing country , gerontology , economic growth , sociology , pathology , economics
There has been an increasing secular trend in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in developing countries. The prevalence reported among children and adolescents of some metro cities in India are comparable to that in some developed countries. Westernization of culture, rapid mushrooming of fast food joints, lack of physical activity, and increasing sedentary pursuits in the metro cities are some of the reasons implicated for this. The nutritional changes in small town school children might be following the same pattern of larger cities.