Overweight and obesity among children and adolescents in Bangladesh: a systematic review and meta-analysis

T Biswas, A Islam, MS Islam, S Pervin, LB Rawal - Public health, 2017 - Elsevier
Objectives The increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity among children (0–12
years) and adolescents (13–19 years) has emerged as a major public health threat in …

Obesity and overweight in Bangladeshi children and adolescents: a scoping review

S Rahman, MT Islam, DS Alam - BMC public health, 2014 - Springer
Background Obesity and overweight in children and adolescents is an emerging public
health concern alongside under-nutrition in low and middle income countries. Our aim was …

Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of nutrition among school teachers in Bangladesh: A cross-sectional study

MA Habib, MR Alam, T Rahman, AI Chowdhury… - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Background Teachers play a pivotal role in imparting nutritional knowledge to their students.
This research aimed to evaluate the nutrition-related knowledge, attitudes, and practices …

A review on child and maternal health status of Bangladesh

AHMM Rahman - CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Child and maternal nutritional and health status is a very much concerning issue of
Bangladesh. To summarize the specific conditions of Bangladeshi child and maternal health …

Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and obesity among primary school children (9–14 years) in a selected area of Dhaka, Bangladesh: A cross …

MT Hossain, SK Luies, T Biswas - Indian Journal of Community …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Materials and Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study involved 150 children
recruited from four purposively selected primary schools, following simple random sampling …

Lifestyle factors and risk of obesity among the school children in Khulna city

S Akter, TA Bristy - Khulna University Studies, 2022 - kus.ku.ac.bd
As childhood obesity is increasing in urban areas, this study was designed to explain the
association of lifestyle-related factors with obesity among primary school children in the …

[PDF][PDF] Fast Food Intake and Prevalence of Overweight/Obesity in Students: do Eating Habits have a Differential Impact on Gender?

MA Habib, AI Chowdhury, K Hossen… - Journal of …, 2020 - academia.edu
Introduction: Nowadays, eating fast food and spending money on home away foods have
been increased rapidly. As a result, the prevalence rate of both fast food consumption and …

Factors Affecting The Selection of Cuisine: A Study on The Restaurant Sector of Bangladesh

J Mahmud - 2019 - reposit.library.du.ac.bd
Nowadays people eat out in restaurants for work-related reasons and for entertainment as
well. In most cases, restaurant goers have a choice of venues to choose from (Koo, Tao, & …

Assessment of Consumers Awareness of Nutrition, Food Safety and Hygiene in the Life Cycle for Sustainable Development of Bangladesh-A Study on Sylhet City …

N Islam - arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02719, 2022 - arxiv.org
The objective of the study is to explore the knowledge of consumers on nutrition, food safety
and hygiene of the sampled respondents in the Sylhet City Corporation in Bangladesh in …

“Whole School Environmental Mapping Framework and Observation” in Preventing Childhood Obesity

HAM Abd Majid, A Danis, SKA Sharoni… - Procedia-Social and …, 2015 - Elsevier
The school environment is one of the many factors related to the increment of overweight
and obesity among children by influencing the eating pattern and physical activity level. This …