• Ramin Shayan-Moghadam, Motahar Heidari-Beni, Roya Riahi, Mohammad Esmail Motlagh, Shahin Fesharaki, Ramin Heshmat, Seyede Shahrebanoo Daniali, and Roya Kelishadi.
• Child Growth and Development Research Center, Research Institute for Primordial Prevention of Non-Communicable Disease, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
• Arch Iran Med. 2020 Aug 1; 23 (8): 522-529.

BackgroundThe present study assess lifestyle and eating habits of Iranian adolescent girls.MethodsThis cross-sectional study was conducted on 3207 adolescent girls, aged 12-18 years. Lifestyle and eating habits of adolescents were assessed.ResultsThe prevalence of overweight was 11.3% and that of obesity was 10.2%. The frequencies of daily intake of fruits, dairy products and vegetables were 60.9%, 45.6 % and 33.5%, respectively. Skipping breakfast (15.8%) was more frequent than skipping dinner or lunch. Moreover, 10.6% of subjects had fast food daily and 16.2% had fast food weekly. Overall, 55.2% of participants watched television for at least 2 hours a day; and 27.1% reported to have a sleeping time of less than 8 hours a day. Low physical activity, i.e. less than 30 minutes per day, was less frequent among participants with high socio-economic status (SES) compared to those with medium or low SES (57.6% vs. 61.3% and 64.1%, respectively, P value = 0.010).ConclusionImprovement of lifestyle habits should be considered in public health plans for health promotion of adolescent girls and the next generation. Primordial prevention of chronic diseases by improving healthy lifestyle of adolescent girls should be a national public health priority.© 2020 The Author(s). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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