Abstract:
This study is aimed to determine the junk food eating pattern and the effect of the
junk food consumption towards the primary school children's body weight. The
present study involves 120 respondents where 60 primary school children from urban
area and 60 children from rural area. Among the 120 respondents, 66 of them are
males and 54 of them are females. Comparison of junk food eating pattern among
children in rural and urban area was studied as well as comparison of junk food eating
pattern among the children in different gender. In the present study, primary school
children show an unhealthy junk food eating pattern where more than 58% of the
children have junk food in a regular basis. Besides, it was found that junk food like
potato chips or other packaged foods, chocolate and French fries have a high
correlation with body weight of the children.
