• Daphishisha Kharwanlang
• Dropati Thapa
• Archana Das

Background: Fast food refers to food that is easily and quickly prepared and serve but it has very less nutritional value, the ill impact and effect of fast food are many but adolescents are not aware of it. Most fast food items have juices and enzymes which add up a lot of fat and calories in our diet which lack in vitamins and fibre and other nutrients that the body needs for proper functioning. Eating of fast food leads to obesity, cardiovascular diseases and other physical problems.The growing health hazards, due to fast food, can only be reduced when more and more people take a healthy and balanced diet. Materials and Method: Quantitative survey research approach anddescriptive correlational research design was used for the study. The target population were 162 students selected by Probability simple random sampling technique using the lottery method. Structured self-administered questionnaire and 5-point Likert scale was developed to gather data and analysis was done by descriptive and inferential statistics. Results: In the present study, reveals that majority 47.5% of the adolescents have moderately adequate knowledge,27.8%have adequate knowledge and 24.7% have inadequate knowledge. Majority 43.8% of the adolescents have neutral attitude followed by 32.7% have positive attitude and 23.5% have negative attitude. Study found highly significant positive correlation between knowledge and attitude regarding health hazards of fast foods among adolescents (r = 0.42: p = <0.001). No significant association found between knowledge regarding health hazards of fast foods with all the demographic variables. Study found significant association between attitude regarding health fast foods among adolescents with selected demographic i.e. gender (χ2 = 6.51: p = 0.04), class standard (χ2 = 6.27: p = 0.04). Conclusion:The study conclude that keeping in the view the finding of the study, the investigator felt that the problem is more serious than we think and adolescents are the mostly affected. It our, parents, people, and health care workers’ responsibility to make aware the adolescents about the ill effects of fast foods. The investigator’s perception of preparing informational booklet is found to be meaningful. Providing booklet regarding fast foods and its health hazards helps the adolescents understand better and it may help in future also.

Knowledge, attitude, health hazards, fast foods, adolescents, informational booklet.

"''KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING HEALTH HAZARDS OF FAST FOODS AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND TO DEVELOP AN INFORMATIONAL BOOKLET IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF KAMRUP (M), ASSAM''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no.g521-g526, March-2025, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2503662.pdf

"''KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDE REGARDING HEALTH HAZARDS OF FAST FOODS AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND TO DEVELOP AN INFORMATIONAL BOOKLET IN SELECTED SCHOOLS OF KAMRUP (M), ASSAM''", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.12, Issue 3, page no. ppg521-g526, March-2025, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2503662.pdf