Eating habits and obesity among Lebanese university students
Open Access
- 30 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nutrition Journal
- Vol. 7 (1) , 32
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2891-7-32
Abstract
In the past year Lebanon has been experiencing a nutritional transition in food choices from the typical Mediterranean diet to the fast food pattern. As a consequence, the dietary habits of young adults have been affected; thus, overweight and obesity are increasingly being observed among the young. The purpose of this study is to assess the prevalence of overweight and obesity on a sample of students from the Lebanese American University (in Beirut) and to examine their eating habits.Keywords
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