“…While optimal nutrition contributes to health, wellbeing, and normal development [ 1 , 2 ], an unbalanced, nutrient-poor diet accompanied by sedentary lifestyle and harmful habits, consequently, leads to greater risk of developing a variety of chronic diseases including obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and cancer [ 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 ]. Higher body mass index (BMI) and weight problems in youth, usually linked to poor diet, are likely to cause hypertension and other cardiovascular problems together with reduced quality of life in future [ 7 , 8 , 9 ].…”