Impact of the relationship between obesity and food intake patterns among Sri Lankan people

Abstract

In the present situation non communicable dieses are spread soon and obesity can be identified as a reason for that. It means the surplus fat of our meals is stored in stomach, breast and back side in our body. As a result of this the person will be suffered from the obesity. Waist circumference, body mass index are used to define the obesity. Obesity will be a main reason for such daises as heartaches, high blood pressure, asthma, cancers, mental diseases, joint problems. When considering the present situation of Sri Lanka a number of 92530 of men and 269269 women are suffered from obesity. Accordingly the research problem of this study is the effect of food consumption for the obesity during 1980-2013. The independent variable is food consumption and the facts that affect to the independent variable is carbohydrate, lipid, milk, pulse and sugar. In this research secondary data was collected by the annual report of census and statistics department about income and expenditure of households. Dependent variable was obesity and data was collected by annual health report. A multiple regression was conducted with these data. Also graphs were used to identify the variation of obesity and food consumption during years. It was admired by 95% significant level and effect of lipid was (p=.016) and the effect of carbohydrate was (p=.049).Accordingly carbohydrate and lipid has affected to the obesity. Genetic, physical activity, gender, age, economic level, pregnancy, mental stress, are affected to the obesity and the main point is the foods which our body is consumed does not dissolve. Then they are kept in our body in an unnecessary way. That means food consumption affects to the obesity in Sri Lanka