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Lifestyle Habits Associated With Adolescent Overweight And Obesity In Ilala District, Dar Es Salaam, Gloria Josiah Gachocha

Theses & Dissertations

Background:

Prevalence of being overweight or obese is increasing rapidly and as a consequence developing countries are experiencing a double burden of malnutrition along with its complications. Unhealthy lifestyle habits contribute to the energy imbalance that causes being overweight, namely physical inactivity, sedentary lifestyle and poor diet choices. Interventions targeted at identified lifestyle habits associated with obesity in a local setting may help reduce this burden especially in adolescents, who are a vulnerable to adapting poor lifestyle habits. There is paucity of data on the lifestyle habits that Tanzanian adolescents currently lead which might predispose them to obesity. Hence, we …