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Several healthy eating index have been developed to reveal the relationship between diet quality and health. Healthy eating index is one of the indexes evaluating the relationship between diet quality and health. In this cross-sectional study; determination of diet quality and physical activity level of the overweight and obese was aimed. The research conducted with 113 volunteers aged between the 18 and 65, and overweight or obese who applied to lose weight to the Healthy Life Center. The questionnaire in which demographic characteristics and frequency of food consumption investigated was applied. Body composition was determined by anthropometric measurements and some biochemical parameters was evaluated. For physical activity levels International Physical Activity Questionnaire , for dietary quality HEI-2005 scale were used. Of the participants, 30.01 were overweight, 69.9% were obese. 43.3% were male and 67.5% were female with one or more diseases (p˂0.05). While 70.6% of overweight participants were inactive and 29.4% had low activity levels; obese were %69.6 and %29.1, respectively. Mean score of HEI-2005 was 57.3±7.0 in males and 62.3±7.4 in females (p<0.05). In addition, the average waist circumference of individuals categorized as having poordiet quality and needing improvement was 106.6 cm and 97.7 cm, in males and females, respectively (p<0.05). Diet quality and physical activity levels of the overweight and obese participants were low. Supportive health policies should be developed to improve the healthy nutrition and physical activity levels of these individuals.

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