Effects of controlled school-based multi-component model of nutrition and lifestyle interventions on behavior modification, anthropometry and metabolic risk profile of urban Asian Indian adolescents in North India

• Published in: European journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 64; no. 4; pp. 364 - 373
• Main Authors: Singhal, N, Misra, A, Shah, P, Gulati, S
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2010; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/699/1702/393; 692/699/2743/137; 692/700/459/284; 692/700/478/174; Adolescent; Adolescent Behavior; adolescent nutrition; Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Adolescents; Aeration; anthropometric measurements; Anthropometry; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Asian Indians; Asian People; attitudes and opinions; Behavior modification; Beverages; Bioelectricity; Biological and medical sciences; Blood; blood glucose; Blood Glucose - metabolism; Body Composition; Body fat; Body image; Body measurements; Body Weights and Measures; boys; Children; Clinical Nutrition; Complications and side effects; Confidence intervals; Diabetes; Diabetes mellitus; Diabetes. Impaired glucose tolerance; Diameters; Diet; Disease prevention; Eating behavior; eating habits; Education; Electrodes; Elementary school students; Endocrine pancreas. Apud cells (diseases); Endocrinopathies; Energy Intake; Epidemiology; Etiopathogenesis. Screening. Investigations. Target tissue resistance; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Female; Females; Food; Food and nutrition; food intake; foods; Fruits; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; gender differences; girls; Health aspects; Health Behavior; Health Education; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Impedance; Impedance method; India; India - epidemiology; Insulin resistance; Internal Medicine; Intervention; Life Style; lifestyle; Lifestyles; Lipids; Lipids - blood; Male; Males; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Metabolism; Methods; Nutrition; Nutrition education; nutrition knowledge; Nutrition research; nutritional intervention; nutritional status; Obesity; Obesity in children; Obesity, Abdominal; Obesity, Abdominal - blood; Obesity, Abdominal - epidemiology; Obesity, Abdominal - therapy; original-article; Prevention; Public Health; Risk assessment; Risk Factors; Schools; Socioeconomics; Students; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teenagers; therapy; Urban Health; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; Asia; India; adolescents; diabetes; Asian Indians; obesity; prevention; Endocrinopathy; Anthropometry; Risk; Urban area; Prevention; School; Behavior; Nutritional status; Human; Obesity; Urban environment; Nutrition; Diabetes mellitus; Nutrition disorder; Metabolic diseases; School environment; Feeding; Adolescent; Risk factor; Indian; Models; Life style
• ISSN: 0954-3007; 1476-5640; 1476-5640
• DOI: 10.1038/ejcn.2009.150

Background/Objectives: To study the effectiveness of a multi-component intervention model of nutrition and lifestyle education on behavior modification, anthropometry and metabolic risk profile of urban Asian-Indian adolescents in North India. Subjects/Methods: Two schools matched for student streng...