The relationship between sedentary life and diet with obesity incidence in adolescent at Wachid Hasyim High School 2 Taman Sidoarjo

Abstract

Obesity is a problem that is quite troubling among adolescents (Proverawati, 2010 in
Wulandari, et al, 2017). Obese adolescents throughout their lives have a higher risk of
suffering from a number of serious health problems such as hypertension, cardiovascular
disease, diabetes mellitus, cancer, osteoporosis, stroke, and others that have implications for
reducing productivity and life expectancy (Ministry of Health RI, 2018). Factors causing
obesity in adolescents are suspected to come from the adolescent diet, including not always
having breakfast (65.2%), lack of consumption of vegetable and fruit fiber (93.6%) and
frequent consumption of flavorful foods (75.7%), consuming large portions of food, eating
high energy, high fat, high simple carbohydrates and low fiber, do less physical activity
(42.5%). This study aims to analyze the relationship between sedentary lifestyle and diet with
the incidence of obesity in adolescents at Wachid Hasyim 2 Taman Sidoarjo High School.
This study is with a cross-sectional design, a large sample of 108 students taken by simple
random sampling, data analysis using fisher exact test with a α = 0.05. The results showed
that there was no relationship between sedentary lifestyle and obesity (p = 0,468 ), there
was no relationship between diet and obesity (p = 0.479 ). It is recommended that students
can balance by doing physical activities that expend a lot of energy and maintain a healthy
diet and the school can carry out health promotion in the form of posters or banners about
sedentary lifestyle and diet.