Eating Habits, Prevalence Of Underweight, Overweight And Obesity Among University Students: A Systematic Study

Abstract

Background and Objective:Obesity and being underweight are the leading causes in society among adults, nowadays. However, the extent of the problem is increasing day by day, so this systematic review aims to elaborate on the reason for the obesity and overweight among university students which contains mostly adult populations, hence research was conducted to show that either the eating pattern is a reason of obesity and overweight Methodology: Many scientific public domains were used for the literature review as PubMed and Sci-Hub. The keywords used as obesity, prevalence, adults, university students, eating habits, etc.Results: Many articles include in this study which contains 5 observational and 5 RCTs. Among all of these, there is no relation between eating patterns the obesity, most of the factors which affect obesity are socioeconomic status, but high socioeconomic status is not targeted also the population belonging to low economic status also have cases of obesity. Also, the result was drawn that women are facing more problems of obesity than males. Conclusion: The analysis shows that the nutritional intake or the dietary habits did not have much effect on the weight of the participants either there are many other aspects like socioeconomic status, lifestyle, and meal skipping, these are the component that directly and indirectly affects obesity and underweight.