Observational study on adolescents ’ lifestyle of Parma: Adherence to Mediterranean diet, physical activity and time and quality of sleep

Introduction: Diet, physical activity and sleep are potential risk factors for overweight and obesity and could influence the proper growth during the developmental age. Therefore, monitoring adolescents ’ lifestyle is essential to better understand the association between body composition and possible risk behavioural variables and to design preventive programme for educating people towards healthy habits. Thus, the aim of the study was to investigate the relations between BMI and lifestyle facto rs in a sample of Italian adolescents.
Source: Nutrition, Metabolism, and Cardiovascular Diseases : NMCD - Category: Nutrition Authors: Source Type: research