Barriers in adopting a healthy lifestyle: Insight from college youth

2016-11-25T03-46-27Z
Source: International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health
Anjali, Manisha Sabharwal.
Obesity, a preventable chronic disease, is becoming a serious health problem in all age groups due to the indulgence in a sedentary lifestyle. As a result, the population is at a risk of developing several obesity-related disorders, which in turn is likely to create a huge public health burden for developing nations shortly. With the rise in obesity trends across the population, it is necessary to target the different phases of life to tackle obesity problem. After schoolchildren, college students are the appropriate targets for interventions as their lives are in a transitional phase. Even if individual behavior changes are made, this alone is not likely to result in improved health and quality of life without an environment that enables sustenance of those changes. Therefore, all the interventions must take ones socio-ecological system that shapes behavior into consideration in creating health-promoting programs.


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