Obesity frequency of the university students and analyzing the level of physical activity and healthy life style behaviors

Obesity is a chronic disease which affect the adults more day by day as well as children and prevalance of which has been increasing in both developed and developing countries. Recently,prevalance of the obesity has increased at any age groups. the reason for this is the breaking of the food habits introduced by the modern life and individual's maintaining a sedentary life style avoiding from the physical activities. This research which has been carried out to determine the frequency of obesity among the university students and analyze healthy life style behaviors with the level of physical activity was Performed upon the students studying at Adıyaman University in 2012-2013 academic year. 1260 of the 9264 students studying in the central campus were reached. Anthropometric body measurements were performed upon the experimental subjects in the research, and level of physical activity and healthy life style behaviors scale was performed. When the data were analyzed as result of the research, 47,94% (604 students) of the university students participated in the research were determined as male and 52,06% (656 students) were determined as female. When age variable of the students was anlyzed, 31,12% of the students were determined as being 18 years old and below, 52,69% as being between 18-23 years old and 16,19% as being 24 years old and over. As result of this, 815 (64,69%) of the university students participated in the research were determined as having normal weight, 322 (25,55%) were deetrmined as being overweight and 123 (9,76%) were determined as being obese.