A Study about the Influence of Lifestyle on Excess Weight in Adolescents from Urban Areas

Abstract

This research assumes that the processes of growth and development of adolescents from urban areas can be influenced by their lifestyle, diet, as well as the adequate practice of physical activities. This study was aimed at determining the degree to which a specific diet alongside with the practice of physical activities, both during, as well as after school, can influence the processes of growth and development of adolescents. In order to verify this hypothesis, a questionnaire-based survey was applied to a number of 471 girls and 349 boys from highschools in Brasov municipality. By analyzing the research results it was found that a significant number of young adolescents from urban areas have adopted an inadequate lifestyle, characterized by consumption of high-fat hypercaloric food, refined sweets, alcohol, coffee, and tobacco which, correlated with an inadequate practice of physical exercises during and after school, influences the growth and development of adolescents from urban areas.