Disruption in daily eating-fasting and activity-rest cycles in Indian adolescents attending school.

ABSTRACT: A lifestyle with erratic eating patterns and habits predisposes youngsters to obesity. Through a two-phase feasibility study among Indian students living in the Delhi area, we longitudinally examined the following: (1) the daily eating-fasting cycles of students (N = 34) in school and college using smartphones as they transition from high school (aged 13-15 years; nIX = 13) to higher secondary school (HSSS; 16-18 years; nXII = 9) to their first year (FY) of college (18-19 years; nFC = 12); and (2) daily activity-rest cycles and light-dark exposure of 31 higher secondary school students (HSSS) using actigraphy. In phase 1, students' food data were analyzed for temporal details of eating events and observable differences in diet composition, such as an energy-dense diet (fast food (FF)), as

SUBMITTER: Jain Gupta N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6953840 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature