Effect of Meal Replacement and Nutrition Education on Obese Adolescent Girls
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2014
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Obesity has reached epidemic proptirtions iii Imlia in the 21' century, with inorbidity obesity affecting five percent of
tile country's population. Adolescent is a i rucial period in life and implies multiple physiological and psychological
changes that affect nuirifional needs and habits. Meal skipping and eating irregularly are common during adolescence
and especially prevalent during inidtile aiul late adolescence. High fiber diets provide bulk or more satiating and have
been linked to lower hodv weight. Niitritioii education must help teens to become informed decision makers about their
diets. Three hundred atlolesceiu girls were involved m screening for obesity. From them forty five adolescents and baseline
survey was conducted with them and then they divided into three groups each have 15 members. In this study they
researcher has developed high fiber recipes like ko'/hukattai, roti and porridge using fiber rich ingredients like varagu,
horse gram and curry leavers. Four differeiu samples of high fiber recipes were developed using the same ingretlients at
various proportion and then it was subjected to organoleptic evaluation with 30 semi-trained panel members. Sample
III got over all acceptability then other samples in three high fiber recipes. Recipes are subjected to biochemical analysis.
Dietary fiber content in ko'/.liukatti, roti .nid porridge found to be 7g, 8g and 8g respectively. Rower point was pi'epared
for nutrition education based on management of obesity and meal replacement given to obese adolescent girls in group 1
and nutrition education mily nutrition education given to group 11. After three months of meal replacement and nutrition
education, the changes in fieiglu, weight, |:MI, Waist to hip ratio and Imdy fat peicentage were evaluated. From the study
I'esults meal replacement wa.s very effecuve- in weight reduction.