Impact of Fast Food Consumption on Health: A Study on University Students of Bangladesh

Understanding the current health status of a population is a requirement to develop public health strategies, and the prevalence of more fast food businesses affect public health slowly and negatively. To comment on the public health status of a country, a large populations' data on many health related aspects required. This research aims to investigate the health status of young generations of Bangladesh with common health aspects considered. Further, we investigated the potential measurement of fast food consumption behavior and the health hazard factor associated with it. For this, we have drawn a questionnaire, gathered responses and tried to figure out the insightful information from this survey analysis using data driven methods. A total of 170 university going students, of whom 122 were male (71.76%), and 48 were female (28.23%) constitute the sample of this research. We have analyzed the data with correlation analysis and chi-squared test to understand the behavior of the features. The result concludes university students' health status and its relation with fast food consumption rate. It also makes a demographic comparison on fast food consumption rate in eight regions of Bangladesh. The results can create social awareness as well as it may help in public health-related decision making in Bangladesh.