Assessment of nutritional status of obesity- women

ABSTRACT

Diet is becoming an increasingly important determinate of body weight in any community. The variations in body mass index are partly variation by energy intake; whereas regional variations in obesity are related to the educational level of the populatipn. The aim of this study was evaluation the nutrition status and nutrition pattern of obese women. The results reveled that the mean of weight and the height for all sample was 68.8kg +/- 17.3 and 155cm +/- 9.5 respectively, 50.4% of the participant reported that doing the housekeeping activity without servant, while the high percent showed in women with overweigh and obese women don't doing physical activity 55.2% and 57.4% rerpectively. 47.9% from all sample eat three meals per day, while 37.8% eat the breakfast meal and 29.4% did not eat breakfast, but 62.9% from the participant consider that the breakfast meal not important, while 42.3% from the overweigh women did not eat the breakfast because they make a diet to loss weight. 47.1% and 47.0% eat light food and fatty food outside the home respectively. The obese women take a large amount from the energy, protein and fat [2323.38kcal, 93.67g and 82.12g] respectively, and both of women who have overweigh and obesity showed high percent for excess amount from RDA for energy, protein, fat and carbohydrate. Both of obese women and women who have overweigh take high energy from fat. Statistical there was a significant different p<0.05 between the level of education and overweigh and obesity, while a significant different p<0.01 between work and level of income with overweigh and obesity