Nutrition Transition and Obesity Among Teenagers and Young Adults in South Asia

Jayawardena, Ranil; Ranasinghe, Priyanga; Wijayabandara, Maheshi; Hills, Andrew P.; Misra, Anoop

doi:10.2174/1573399812666160808100211

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“…Occupational sitting time is high for educated individuals who prefer desk jobs that in turn increase the risk of being overweight or obese . These characteristics are considered to be problems in developed countries, and are emerging as trends in Bangladesh as well . A woman in Bangladesh with a highly educated husband/partner did not maintain a healthy BMI.…”

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Socioeconomic transition and its influence on body mass index (BMI) pattern in Bangladesh

Biswas

Kabir

Khan

2018

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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Rapid urbanization allied with growing wealth inequality and dietary alteration seems to have forced a change in the capacity of women in Bangladesh to control their weight. Additional information is still needed on such factors as the amount of time that women are inactive and sitting down, for example, as well as their daily calorie intake in order to assemble all the pieces for addressing necessary health policy changes in Bangladesh. These factors will also help to indicate a shift of focus from rural malnutrition to urban obesity.

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Socioeconomic transition and its influence on body mass index (BMI) pattern in Bangladesh

Biswas

Kabir

Khan

2018

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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“…• Frequency of having family meals together, inadequate sleep duration and poor sleep quality emerged as important factors associated with depressive symptoms, thereby accentuating a need to foster better sleep and eating habits for improved mental well-being among adolescents. Misra, 2016;Mehta et al, 2014;Rathi, Riddell, & Worsley, 2018); thus, dietary habits can work as potential targets of public health interventions to decrease the burden of depression in adolescents in India.…”

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Eating habits and sleep patterns of adolescents with depression symptoms in Mumbai, India

Moitra

Madan

Shaikh

2020

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Adolescents with depression engage in unhealthy eating habits and irregular sleep patterns and are often at an increased risk for weight‐related problems. Improvement in these lifestyle behaviours may help to prevent depression, but knowledge about the associations between depression, sleep, eating habits and body weight among adolescents in India is limited. This cross‐sectional study investigated the prevalence of depression and its association with sleep patterns, eating habits and body weight status among a convenience sample of 527 adolescents, ages 10–17 years in Mumbai, India. Participants completed a survey on sleep patterns such as sleep duration, daytime sleepiness and sleep problems and eating habits such as frequency of breakfast consumption, eating family meals and eating out. Depression was assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire modified for Adolescents (PHQ‐A). Anthropometric measurements were also taken. Within this sample, 25% had moderate to severe depression (PHQ‐A ≥ 10) and 46% reported sleeping less than 6 h > thrice a week. Adolescents with moderate to severe depression had significantly higher body mass index than those with minimal depression (26.2 ± 6.6 vs. 20.2 ± 4.8 kg/m 2 ). The odds of having clinically significant depression (PHQ‐A ≥ 10) was 4.5 times higher in adolescents who had family meals ≤ once a week, 1.6 times higher among those who were sleeping <6 h and 2.3 times higher among participants having trouble falling to sleep more than thrice a week. The findings indicated that a significant proportion of adolescents had depression symptoms; improving sleep and eating habits may present potential targets for interventions.

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“…It is further alarming that overweight and obesity are also becoming common and more prevalent among adolescents and young adults in South Asia, as the younger generations adopt more unhealthy food habits (Jayawardena et al, 2017). Among Nepalese school children in city areas, 26% of the children aged 6~13 years were found to be overweight or obese (Koirala et al, 2015).…”

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Is Foetal Programming by Mismatched Pre- and Postnatal Nutrition Contributing to the Prevalence of Obesity in Nepal?

Khanal

Nielsen

2019

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Nepal and many developing countries are currently suffering from increased prevalence of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic disorders. Unhealthy dietary habits and physical inactivity are traditionally considered as responsible factors for these disorders. The relatively new concept of foetal programming suggests that development of metabolic diseases later in life may be associated with poor nutritional status in utero, and such phenomenon could be amplified by subsequent exposure to unhealthy diets after birth. We suggest that foetal programming and mismatched nutritional situations during foetal and postnatal life are important causative factors for increased prevalence of obesity and metabolic disorders in Nepal. Issues highlighted in this paper may also be relevant to other developing countries with similar socioeconomic status. Undernutrition in foetal life can predispose for visceral fat deposition and may alter dietary preferences towards unhealthy diets, amplifying the risk of nutritional mismatch after birth; this can lead to metabolic disturbances in a number of pathways including glucose and lipid metabolism. Providing attention to early life nutrition could therefore be an important tool to reduce the prevalence of lifestyle diseases in Nepal. Future national health policies should thus include changes in research and intervention activities towards preventing averse early life nutritional programming. Availability of free-of-cost and mandatory nutritional education and medical services to pregnant women and their families and better management of national health care systems including digitalization of national health data could be viable strategies to achieve these goals.

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Nutrition Transition and Obesity Among Teenagers and Young Adults in South Asia

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Socioeconomic transition and its influence on body mass index (BMI) pattern in Bangladesh

Socioeconomic transition and its influence on body mass index (BMI) pattern in Bangladesh

Eating habits and sleep patterns of adolescents with depression symptoms in Mumbai, India

Is Foetal Programming by Mismatched Pre- and Postnatal Nutrition Contributing to the Prevalence of Obesity in Nepal?

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