Investigation and analysis on the status and diet behavior of overweight and obesity in young and middle-aged people of Jinan / 中国行为医学科学

ABSTRACT

Objective To explore the status of obesity and diet behavior in young and middle-aged people of Jinan and supply reference for controlling overweight and obesity by diet intervention. Methods Stratified sampling method was conducted to investigate 18～59 inhabitants in Jinan. The information about their body height,body weight and diet behavior was collected to further analyze the relationship between the status of obesity and correlated behaviors by the SPSS 11.5 software. Results The prevalence rate of overweight and obesity had a significant difference between young group and middle-aged group(P＜0.01), which was separately 21.56% and 33.46%; the prevalence rate of overweight and obesity in young group had a significant difference between males and females(P＜0.05),but no significant difference in middle-aged group.Compared with the diet behavior problems of normal body weight people, the incidence rate of overweight and obesity was significantly higher(P＜0.01),but no significant difference for the habit of midnight snack.Females paid more attention to reasonable match and the speed of food intake than males.Conclusion Overweight and obesity in young and middle-aged people of Jinan is relatively serious,which is closely correlated with unscientific diet behavior.