Research Article
Overweight and Undernutrition in the Cases of School-Going Adolescents in Wolaita Sodo Town, Southern Ethiopia: Cross-Sectional Study
Table 2
Dietary habit (food frequency) of respondents among school adolescents of Wolaita Sodo town, May 2015.
| Variable | Level | Frequency | Percent |
| Type of staple food | Teff | 471 | 71.9 | Maize | 181 | 27.6 | Others | 3 | 0.5 |
| Source of food | Own product | 86 | 13.1 | Market purchased | 481 | 73.4 | Own product/purchase | 88 | 13.5 |
| Meal frequency per day | Twice | 26 | 4.0 | Three times | 404 | 61.7 | Four times | 225 | 34.4 |
| Fruit per week | Yes | 621 | 94.8 | No | 34 | 5.2 |
| Fruit per day/week | 1 day/wk | 64 | 10.3 | 2 days/wk | 169 | 27.2 | 3 days/wk | 207 | 31.6 | 4 days/wk | 181 | 29.1 |
| Fruit per day | Once | 390 | 59.5 | Twice | 174 | 26.6 | Three times | 57 | 6.9 |
| Pulse and legume | Yes | 583 | 89.0 | No | 72 | 11 |
| Vegetable per week | Yes | 611 | 93.3 | No | 44 | 6.7 |
| Episode of hunger in past 30 days | No hunger | 414 | 63.2 | Once | 70 | 10.4 | Twice | 75 | 11.5 | Three times | 40 | 6.1 | Four times | 56 | 8.5 |
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