Snacks consumption and other lifestyle pattern of adolescent school students

There are nearly one billion adolescents in the world accounting for 20–25% of the total population in the developing counties. The Adolescent period accelerates physical, biochemical and emotional development. But Increased TV viewing time among adolescent is associated with raised likelihood of overnight awakening in combination with unhealthy dietary habits and sedentary behavior. When children and young people watch TV, they appear to be more likely to engage in unhealthy dietary habits such as consuming more snacks and soft drinks (known as junk foods) and less fruit and vegetable. Watching television means inactivity, and inactivity has been linked with obesity and heart disease. Adolescent spent a lot of time while watching TV and eating snacks which cause weight gain among them.

Therefore present study was planned a nd the area selected for the study was Samastipur districts of Bihar in India. The total sample size was 120 adolescents respondent. The government schools adolescent were consuming less fat than the private school adolescent. This may due to the reason the private school adolescent were consuming more junk foods and oily foods than the government school adolescent.