EFFECT OF FAST FOOD ON HEALTH AMONG PRECLINICAL STUDENTS AT IMAM UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE.

Introduction: - We decided to take this topic because of it important in health. Fast food restraints on widely distributed throughout KSA partially in big cities like (Riyadh). In addition to that most of fast food restraint use unhealthy making food. The problem is in increasing fast food consumption by young people that leads to many healthy problems which include health care cost, and physical inactivity. Background:- Effect of Fast Food on Health is a popular in our population. The present work is aimed at studying of effect the fast food on pre-clinical student in college of medicine Imam University. Material and method: This is Cross sectional study that were conducted in the college of medicine at Imam Muhammad bin Saud University in Riyadh. Our target population isPre-clinical medical male studentbetween 18 and 35 years old. Sample size of 90 students was calculated statistically (30 students from each preclinical year). Results:- Thirty-nine percent of those were between 18 and 21 years old, while the others were older than 21 years old. Majority of our population sample (48.4%) are in 3rd year and 29.7 percent of them are in 2nd year. More than half of participants (56.3%) reported that their GPA was between 3 and 3.5 out of 5, with only 15.6% of them was below 3. More than 90 percent of the participants admitted that fast food is not good for their health. The most important factor for chosen fast food was the cost in nearly the half (48.4%), while advertisement came as second driven factor for choosing fast food in 23.4 percent of the participants. The most important factor for chosen fast food was the cost in (48.4%). (23.4%) of the participants driven factor for chosen fast food was advertisement. burger was the most popular kind of fast food , then sandwich (12.5%). Conclusion:- Fast food become popular in all world country including our community. Because many factor like: enjoy the taste, advertisement, limited time, and cost .Fast food has effect on our health including: increase our weight,cardiovascular disease and (DM).