ABSTRACT
This thesis was accomplished to gain knowledge whether or not the youths are overweight and if there is a connection to how they eat and exercise.
In Dagens Nyheter Malin Byström wrote that 25% of children was overweight at the age of ten and 1998's statistics from the mandatory military service in Sweden show that 17,5% of the applicants were overweight. Studies that were made in USA ("Fetma ökar bland tonåringar", PrimaVi) showed even a higher percentage that was overweight, more than 20% of USA's population was suffering from fatness. All of these figures are…
