Childhood Obesity and Lifestyles - Characterization of primary school children in Entroncamento Municipality - Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Batista, Marco
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Honório, Samuel, Martins, Júlio, Massuça, Luis, Soares, Filipe
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento
• Texto Completo: https://www.rbone.com.br/index.php/rbone/article/view/382
• topic: Child obesity; Life styles; Physical activity; Sedentary lifestyle; Obesdidad infantil; Estilos de vida; Actividad física; EStilo de vida sedentario; Obesità infantile; Stili di vita; Attività fisíca; Stilo di vita sedentario; Obesidade infantil; Estilos de vida; Actividade física; Sedentarismo; Obesidade infantil; Estilos de Vida; Actividade física; Sedentarismo

Objective: To determine whether regular physical activity influences the prevalence of obesity in children. Methods: This study includes a sample of 239 students representing 32.16% of the population of 743 students of 1st Cycle of Entroncamento city (public education). Ages ranging between 6 and 12 years and 50.6% belong to the female gender. Body composition was assessed (Height, Weight, Skinfold, Body Mass Index and Percent Fat Mass); Results: The results, when compared with previous studies in the same county, seem to indicate that this population has evolved positively in regard to the prevalence of obesity and the prevalence of overweight, as well as indicate lower values than those presented by international studies specifically WHO (2002) and (2009). Conclusions: most individuals do regular physical activity within or outside the school, and 14.5% are those who never practice it. It can be said that all the students say make a conscious power, preferring the "good food" as opposed to those that can be considered harmful to health, and rarely eat ice cream, fries and opposed eat fruit and vegetables several times a day.