{"id":1844,"date":"2025-12-18T08:28:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/?p=1844"},"modified":"2025-12-20T07:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:36:07","slug":"a-study-of-nutritional-status-and-knowledge-attitude-and-practices-among-medical-students-of-a-college-in-kanpur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/a-study-of-nutritional-status-and-knowledge-attitude-and-practices-among-medical-students-of-a-college-in-kanpur\/","title":{"rendered":"A STUDY OF NUTRITIONAL STATUS AND KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICES AMONG MEDICAL STUDENTS OF A COLLEGE IN KANPUR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dr. Abhishek Verma<sup>1<\/sup>, Dr. Rajesh Jain<sup>2<\/sup>, Dr. Anju Gahlot\u00b3, Dr. Anas Ahmad khan<sup>4<\/sup>, Dr. Poonam Kushwaha<sup>5<\/sup><\/strong> , <strong>Resident<sup>1<\/sup>,Professsor<sup>2<\/sup>, Professsor<sup>3<\/sup>, Associate Professsor<sup>4<\/sup><\/strong> , <strong>Rama Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Kanpur<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Introduction \/ Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2022Obesity is a growing public health concern in India, with rising rates among young adults.[1]\u2022College years fundamentally shape lifelong health behaviors.\u2022Global and national efforts (like FSSAI\u2019s Eat Right India Movement) promote healthy eating. Yet, local evidence of impact is limited.\u2022Recent studies show ~9\u201324% overweight and 2\u20136% obesity prevalence among Indian medical students, due to lifestyle shifts and poor nutrition.[2]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Results<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baseline: 28% overweight, 6% obese; <strong>Major risk factors: <\/strong>Frequent junk food intake (42%), Low physical activity (61%), Family history of obesity (15%)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dr._Abhishek_poster1-lko-2.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Dr._Abhishek_poster[1]  lko.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-8af4ec49-fe78-4bd2-863a-12ec99f7ea45\" href=\"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dr._Abhishek_poster1-lko-2.pdf\">Dr._Abhishek_poster[1]  lko<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Dr._Abhishek_poster1-lko-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-8af4ec49-fe78-4bd2-863a-12ec99f7ea45\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Abhishek Verma1, Dr. Rajesh Jain2, Dr. Anju Gahlot\u00b3, Dr. Anas Ahmad khan4, Dr. Poonam Kushwaha5 , Resident1,Professsor2, Professsor3, Associate Professsor4 , Rama Medical College Hospital and Research Centre, Kanpur Introduction \/ Background \u2022Obesity is a growing public health concern in India, with rising rates among young adults.[1]\u2022College years fundamentally shape lifelong health behaviors.\u2022Global and national efforts (like FSSAI\u2019s Eat Right India Movement) promote healthy eating. Yet, local evidence of impact is limited.\u2022Recent studies show ~9\u201324% overweight and 2\u20136% obesity prevalence among Indian medical students, due to lifestyle shifts and poor nutrition.[2] Results Baseline: 28% overweight, 6% obese; Major risk factors: Frequent junk food intake (42%), Low physical activity (61%), Family history of obesity (15%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,117],"tags":[124,125,123],"class_list":["post-1844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-vol-2-issue-3","tag-kap","tag-medical-students","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1844"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1844\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diabetesasia.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}