This will be the second time that the sultanate to launch its National Health and Nutritional Status Survey, according to the Borneo Bulletin on Tuesday.
The survey aims to identify the public's eating habits, food intake and health status, and gather information which will be used to formulate the country's strategic plans on health and food intake.
The survey will be conducted until the year 2011.In some researches conducted in the mid 1990s, obesity remained one of the concerns in the country. About 8.7 percent to 17.8 percent of schoolchildren were found to be obese, while 11.2 percent of men and 12.8 percent of women were obese.
The researches also showed that 36 percent of men, aged between20 and 39, were smokers, and 11 percent had high-blood pressure.
BB
