Effect of Socio-Economic and Nutritional Status on Overweight and Obesity

摘要

Overweight and obesity arc becoming the world's leading nutritional disorders. Hence, a study was undertaken to assess the relationship between socio economic and nutritional status of women in order to develop proper intervention measures. Most of the women studied were middle aged (85%) and only 30 per cent were graduates. 85 per cent women lived in nuclear family and had a varied distribution of family income. Mean values of height, weight, body mass index (BMI), skin fold thickness, waist circumference (WC), hip circumference (HC) and waist to hip (W/IT) ratio were 154.68 cm, 68.89 kg, 28.82 kg / m2,22.92 mm, 97.25 cm, 108.92 cm and 0.89, respectively. 57.5 per cent of women were obese and 38.75 per cent of women were overweight.All the women studied belonged to sedentary lifestyle. Thus it can be concluded that modification of the lifestyle can help in the management of the healthy body weight.