Awareness towards muslim sunnah lifestyle among overweight adult at community of Klang Valley / Nurul Khalilah Azhar

Sunnah food are part of Sunnah diet that caught most attention of people. The claims for the benefits lead to many research about the composition of certain Sunnah food. Sunnah food that had been widely researched consist of black seeds, honey and dates. Even though there are a lot more Sunnah food, most people are not aware of other non popular Sunnah food. Apart from that, Sunnah diet that teach how to eat are not easily proven for the benefits. This study was important to be done as there is high number of overweight adult people in Malaysia. Estimated about 30% prevalence of overweight among adults Malaysia (Mohamud et aI., 2011), (Azmi et aI., 2009). Muslim Sunnah lifestyle that consist of diet and physical activity is one of option that not widely explore yet to address problem of obesity in Malaysia. The goal of this study is to determine the awareness and factors contribute to awareness of Muslim Sunnah lifestyle among overweight adult in Klang Valley. Approach use in this study is quantitative as questionnaire is mainly use for this study. This is an observational study and conducted around Klang Valley area. The sample also selected by convenience sampling and involve 70 sample. Result from this study show mostly overweight adult in Klang Valley were aware of Muslim Sunnah Lifestyle. There was association between family income and level of practise awareness. Lack of study about Muslim Sunnah Lifestyle make the awareness of Muslim Sunnah lifestyle in Malaysia are unknown. Study that have been done also limited at small area, thus the result cannot be generalized.