Abstract:
The research deal with study of the clinical signs of junk food intake for child between 10-19 yearsin Omdurman locality during (October 2018 to December 2019).Using chi- square test. Applied on 384 students.
The basic problem of this research is the quantity consumption of junk food and it side effect, obesity and academic result, social and economic effects. Statistical packages used for analysis was “SPSS” that calculated and find the relationship of main reasons that caused by junk food. Chi-square distributions used to make this relation reality, cross-tabulation also needed to know how often junk size affect which get from the population sample after study, however, the statistical tools were appeared significant in dealing with data and provided more appropriate results that well described junk food situation.
The most important finding: There is strongly relationship between taken junk food and academic level of students, the parent's education is affect in selected of kind of foodand there is no differences between gender (boy – girl) and food frequency in some kind like breakfast, lunch, eggs, dairy products, vegetables and salad this means boy or girl has no preferred all food frequencies mentioned, but has highly significant in dinner. Fool (bush), Tamea, burger, hotdog, pizza, Andome, potato chips, fruits, chips and related, sweets (chocolate – cake). This means the boys is eaten this type of foods differently from eaten by girls.
According to this finding the study recommendedAwareness on Health Education at Primary and secondary Schools , health education should be made a part of the school curriculum. Regular workshops and seminars from health specialists/experts would have a great impact in reducing the consumption of junk food to great extent. Establishing early awareness educational programmes aimed at children between the ages of 2 – 18 will educate about the adverse medical effects and complications associated with fast food induced obesity, and promote active physical activity that is supported by the government for a longer duration.
