_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ E-mail: osgiedeprof@yahoo.com; Asian Journal of Advanced Research and Reports 2(1): 1-9, 2018; Article no.AJARR.44083 Anthropometric Indicators in Diet and Physical Activity R. N. Ativie 1* , E. I. Ekhoye 2 , O. A. Udi 3 , O. C. Okezue 1 , U. A. Ezugwu 1 and N. V. Ibe 1 1 Department of Medical Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences and Technology, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu, Nigeria. 2 Department of Physiology, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, College of Medical Sciences, Edo University, Iyamho, Edo State, Nigeria. 3 Department of Basic Medical Science, College of Natural and Applied Sciences, Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. Author RNA designed the study, authors EIE and OAU monitored the protocol and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. Authors OCO and UAE performed the statistical analysis and author NVI managed the literature searches. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AJARR/2018/v2i116192 Editor(s): (1) Dr. Nadia Sabry El-Sayed El-Gohary, Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Egypt. Reviewers: (1) Arthur Chuemere, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria. (2) Lei Feng, Suining Central Hospital, China. (3) Brijesh Mukherjee, Hi-tech Medical College, India. Complete Peer review History: http://www.sciencedomain.org/review-history/26615 Received 19 June 2018 Accepted 08 September 2018 Published 11 October 2018 ABSTRACT Lifestyle patterns which include diet, level of physical activity, alcohol consumption, smoking and stress are capable of having both positive and negative effect on various health indicators such as anthropometric, cardiovascular and metabolic parameters of body physiology. This study was aimed at investigating the relationship between diet, physical activity and anthropometric indicators [Weight (Wt.), Height (Ht.), Body Mass Index (BMI), Waist and Hip circumferences (WC, HC) and Waist-Hip ratio (WHR)]. Three hundred and seventy five (375) young adults with a mean age of 21.61±2.168 years were selected using the convenience sampling technique. International physical activity questionnaire and food frequency questionnaire were used to collect information on their physical activity level and dietary intake respectively, following which selected anthropometric Original Research Article