A SCENARIO OF SUGAR ADDED FOOD AND BEVERAGE CONSUMPTION AMONG PRESCHOOL CHILDREN IN KELANTAN, MALAYSIA
| Main Authors: | Ruhaya Hasan, Wan Muhamad Amir W Ahmad, Mohamad Shafiq Bin Mohd Ibrahim, Nor Azlida Aleng, Hemala Munisamy, Nurfadhlina Halim, Zalila Ali |
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| Format: | Article |
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, 2017
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https://zenodo.org/record/439994 |
Daftar Isi:
- This paper focuses on the Malaysian scenario of nutritional intake among preschool children in Kelantan, East Coast Malaysia. Nutritional intake and eating habits in Malaysia varies among urban and rural areas. This is because the differences toward lifestyle environment and socioeconomic background. This study was aimed to investigate the truth scenario about nutritional status intake and eating practices among preschool children in urban area. Anthropometric measurements were performed on the children and socioeconomic and Sugary Food Frequency Questioner (FFQ) was answered by their parents. The anthropometric measurement were referred according to WHO references 2007 standards (5 to 19 years old) and WHO child growth references (2 to 5 years old). The mean weight and height of the preschool children were 15.73±3.64 kg and 105.73±5.99 cm respectively while the mean BMI was 13.96±2.24 kg/m2. More than half the children shown to be in normal nutritional status for BMI-for-age (62.6%) followed by thinness (20.5%), severe thinness (8.7%) but only very small percentage of children were shown to be overweight (3.2%), obese (2.7%) and risk of overweight (2.3%). Apart from that most of the children were also in normal category for height-for-age (89.0%) and weight-for-age (69.9%). For height-for-age 9.6% children were shown to be stunting followed by 1.4% children with severely stunting. Concerning to nutritional status the BMI-for-age shows the most of the preschool children fall under the normal BMI-for-age category and there were more children were thinness or severe thinness compared to risk of overweight, overweight and obese. For the height-for-age and weight-for-age shows that most children have normal growth but there is still children who were stunted or severely stunted and underweight or severely underweight.