“Assess The Impact of Eating Habits And Physical Activities on Weight Status Among School Age Children in Aselected Area of Aurangabad

Abstract

Background: In today’s world one of the greatest problems for India is under nutrition among children. The country is still struggling with this problem. The Tibetan young children nutritional status of the entire population is poor and prevalence of malnutrition is higher. Eating habit as certain advantages but at the sometime the eating habit is also influencing the behavior of the children. As will as their physical and physiological health. Aims and objectives: The study aimed at assessing impact of eating habits and physical activities on weight status among school age children, finding the correlation between physical activities, eating habits scores with weight status, and find out association between physical activities, eating habits and weight status scores scores with selected demographic variables. Materials and methods: physical activity and eating habits are assessed by rating scale, weight statuus was determined by finding BMI 60 samples are selected by stratified random sampling. Results: The study results shows that that majority of the children (76.6%) has good eating habit, 100% had good physical activity,65% are under weight. The correlation (r=0.0281)value shows that mild correlation between weight status and physical activity of the school age children There was a significant association between eating habits with gender (X 2 =4, df=1) and religion (X 2 =39.08, df=1) physical activity with gender (X 2 =4.42, df=1),weight status with gender (X 2 =5.44, df=1)