Table 3.

Prevalence of healthy nutrition and physical activity among students in Egypt, Libya and Palestine.

	Egypt		Libya		Palestine		p *
	N	%	N	%	N	%
Female
Physical activity
Vigorous PA £	279	18.44	131	15.21	130	17.50	0.14
Moderate PA $	446	29.48	50	5.81	104	14.00	<0.0001
Vigorous or moderate PA #	596	39.39	154	17.89	195	26.24	<0.0001
Healthy nutrition
≥4 recommendations ¶	122	8.06	98	11.38	83	11.17	0.01
High fruit & vegetables consumption **	270	17.85	206	23.93	98	13.19	<0.0001
Male
Physical activity
Vigorous PA £	420	30.84	166	37.81	194	37.02	0.004
Moderate PA $	415	30.47	80	18.22	104	19.85	<0.0001
Vigorous or moderate PA #	646	47.43	184	41.91	212	40.46	0.01
Healthy nutrition
≥4 recommendations ¶	67	4.92	53	12.07	72	13.74	<0.0001
High fruit & vegetable consumption **	207	15.20	111	25.28	65	12.40	<0.0001

PA: physical activity; ^£ Vigorous PA: ≥3 days/week in vigorous exercise for at least 20 min; ^$ Moderate PA: ≥5 days/week in moderate exercise for at least 30 min; ^# Vigorous or moderate PA: either vigorous or moderate PA; ^¶ follow ≥4 healthy nutrition recommendation described in method section; ** Fruit and vegetable score ≥6; * Chi-square test comparing countries.