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| Article Name : | | | DEFICIENCY OF BALANCED NUTRITIONAL DIET AND OBESITY: A SERIOUS PROBLEM AMONG THE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS | | Author Name : | | | K. Sundar , L.Arunkumar | | Publisher : | | | Ashok Yakkaldevi | | Article Series No. : | | | GRT-5630 | | Article URL : | |  | Author Profile View PDF In browser | | Abstract : | | | Obesity and deficiency of balanced nutritional diet has become a serious body mass profile problem today (WHO, 2004). Obesity means having too much body fats and adipocytes. Overweight falls into two categories - the athletic overweight, applied to trained athletes and very physically active persons doing strength developing or body building physical activities. Such are overweight due to training which enlarges muscles, promotes muscle and bone growth and allows fewer fats which are termed ―essential fats‖. BMI is simply a numeric measure of a person‘s body ― thinness or ―thickness. Many colleges and universities have a health services and campus fitness and sports centers which are a prime setting for nutrition education to occur. Many factors are affecting dietary and physical activity habits of college students. | | Keywords : | | |
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