Impact of Physical activity and Intake of fiber and fat on the anthropometric indices of university females in Hail city of Saudi Arabia

Autor:	Sarah Mubarak Nassar Al Rashidi, Eyad Alshammari, Rafia Bano
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	business.industry Dietary intake Physical activity Medicine (miscellaneous) Overweight Anthropometry medicine.disease Positive correlation Obesity Animal science Medicine Fiber medicine.symptom business Female students Food Science
Zdroj:	Current Research in Nutrition and Food Science Journal. 3:121-129
ISSN:	2322-0007 2347-467X
DOI:	10.12944/crnfsj.3.2.04
Popis:	Objectives of the present study were to find out the correlation of physical activity and dietary intake of fiber, fat with the anthropometric measurements of the female students and staff of the university of Hail. A total of 237 participants (age 18 – 30+ years) were included in the study. Information on physical activity was obtained using IPAQ – 2004. The intake of fats and fiber was measured by online screening using Nutrition Quest, 2009. All the anthropometric measurements were collected by using In-Body 720 machine. Results were analyzed using SPSS17.0, and were checked at 0.05 level for significance. Results of the study concluded that around 22 per cent of the subjects were overweight whereas, 20 per cent were found obese, 57.4 per cent of the participants were found to be physically inactive. BMI was significantly correlated with daily fiber intake P
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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