Abstract:
“Lifestyle diseases” termed primarily arises
from the abnormal lifestyle of a person. An alarming
number of diseases fall under this category. is one
associated with the way a person or group of people lives.
This group of diseases acts like a viscous cycle as one
disease is interlinked with the other in the sense that one
of them can perpetuate the other. The prevalence of
lifestyle diseases is high and alarmingly increasing in
Malappuram district of Kerala. So, the study aimed to
find the prevalence of lifestyle disease related risk factors
among the regular eaters of food from food outlets. The
cross-sectional study was conducted in Manjeri
municipality of Malappuram district. In this study the
prevalence of life style diseases like diabetes,
hypertension and cancer among regular eaters of food
from food outlets was assessed. A questionnaire was
made to elicit the demographic profile, health profile and
other risk factors associated with lifestyle. The specific
scores were given to responses of various questions, and
data was analysed using SPSS software package. A total
200 subjects participated in the study. Among the
selected samples, 69% of subjects had the incidence of
lifestyle diseases. Among them majority belonged to the
category of 40–49-years. 67% of them liked fast foods
and remaining 33% subjects was not preferring fast food
as an option Diabetes was the most prevalent lifestyle
disease among the selected sample (49%of the samples)
with 39% of the subjects affected with hypertension and
22.5% subjects with cancer. In terms of age category
20.6% of samples, below 30 years consumed hotel food
regularly. Visited food outlets once in a week, 33.5% of
sample visited twice in a week, 28.5%of subjects visited
thrice in a week, 21.5% subjects visited more than three
times in a week. The frequency of visits to the food outlets
is strongly associated with the occurrence of the lifestyle
diseases. Thus, it can be concluded that eating food away
from home from food outlets would lead to the
development of lifestyle diseases
