Level of daily physical activity and eating habits among school children aged between 10 and 13 years in the city Leopoldina-MG
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the level of physical activity and feeding habits of children aged 10 to 13 years at a public school and a private school in the city of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais. Materials and Methods: The study included 53 children, 33 from private schools and 20 p...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2014 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Instituto Brasileiro de Ensino e Pesquisa em Fisiologia do Exercício (IBPEFEX) |
| Repositorio: | Revista brasileira de obesidade, nutrição e emagrecimento |
| Idioma: | portugués |
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| Palabra clave: | Child obesity Level of physical activity Eating habits Obesidad infantil Nivel de actividad física Hábitos alimenticios Obesità infantile Livello di attivita fisica Abitudini alimentari Obesidade Infantil Nível de atividade física Hábitos alimentares Obesidade infantil |
| Sumario: | The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the level of physical activity and feeding habits of children aged 10 to 13 years at a public school and a private school in the city of Leopoldina, Minas Gerais. Materials and Methods: The study included 53 children, 33 from private schools and 20 public schools aged between 10-13 years. Collections weight, height and BMI calculations later and percentiles were performed. QuestionnairesPAC-c to check the level of physical activity, and a weekly frequency of food questionnaire to verify the feeding habits of schoolchildren were also applied. Results: One can observe significant differences between public and private schools where publicshowed higher weight value(49.78 ± 12.0 vs. 36.59 ± 9.0) kg, height (155.80 ± 1.0 versus 142.00 ± 1.0) cm, BMI (20.28 ± 4.5 versus 18.03± 3.4) kg/m2 and percentile (69.42 ± 31.90 versus 59.90 ± 31.01). As for the PAC -c, the values were notstatistically different (2.19 ± 0.65 versus 2.82 ± 0.53). For the weekly frequency of food questionnaire, even with different preferences in diverse issues, it was noted that both schools have negative feeding habits. Conclusion : Regarding the level of physical activity , both schools , public and private were classified as sedentary with slight advantage to private school approached the rating of moderately active . BMI percentile and were within recommended for both groups with values slightly lower for private school maybe because of the age and height and / or the small difference in levels of physical activity classifications. To feed frequency observed differences between the responses, however both groups reported not very positive habits. |
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