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Estimating Individual Food Consumption from the
Household Food Consumption Based on the Age, Gender and
Body Mass Index (BMI) Using Econometric Model
Nurul Ainaa Binti Mainor
Supervisor: Dr. Shalela Binti Mohd Mahali
Bachelor of Science (Financial Mathematics)
School of Informatics and Applied Mathematics
The rapid growth of obesity gave a huge threat to our health and country in which it will
also impact us at the economic level. By identifying the sources that can contribute to
obesity individually, we can help in reducing this issue from getting larger. The aim of
this research is to estimate the individual food consumption based on the household food
consumption and analyze its relationship between food consumption and obesity at the
individual level. We use econometric model to estimate it based on the profile of average
individual caloric intakes according to their age, gender and body mass index (BMI) across
the food nutrients. The results show that individual food consumption in terms of caloric
intake increases with BMI but differences across their age, gender and also the food
nutrients. To be more specific, obese and overweight people consume more fat than
normal weight people.
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