Promoção de saúde e prevalência da obesidade em escolares no município de Barretos-SP

Abstract

The problem of the obesity is increasing in the world-wide in Brazilian population, being a chronic illness, that provokes the development of many illnesses as the arterial hypertension and diabetes. The passage into the adulthood with a high adipose cells rate may bring physical, social and psycological harm for the human being, researches present that the appearing of obesity in childhood and adolescence has been increasing fastly. The goal of that research was to determine the occurrence of infantile obesity at a public school and at a private one in the city of Barretos, S.P. Have been selected 189 male and female students at the age of 11 and 12 in which 136 of them from a public school and 53 from a private one. After that the body mass index and the fattening percentage test have been applied. The results pointed that the presence of obesity in the students at a private school is higher than the obesity in the students at a public one for both genders. That result points an immediate necessity of intervention in behavior changes and eating habits of the researched students.