Prevalence of Obesity and Malnutrition among School-Aged Children of the District Peshawar

ABSTRACT
Malnutrition and Obesity are worldwide health phenomena so the aims of the study were to assist the prevalence of obesity and malnutrition among school-aged children of the district Peshawar. Institutional based cross-sectional study designs were used. In which total of 3000 children between the ages of 4-15 years were studied. A regular random sampling method was used for sample collection. A total of 3000 students were participated in this study. The numbers of male students and females students were same. The overall results shows that out of 1500 students the ration of underweight were 103(7%) and obese (6.1%) respectively. Our study shows that nutritional factors are important since obesity and overweight increase with socioeconomic status as well as with nutritional intake. So Obesity was found High socioeconomic status groups should be directed for overweight while underweight and nutritional deficiency is a problem of lower socioeconomic status. Meat, Milk intake and lack of physical activity that have been identified in the current study. We observed that a strong relation was found in nutrition with food intake and socioeconomic status.