Obesidade infantil: desafio para o professor de educação física

Abstract

The childhood obesity is a disease from multiple causes and essentially presents a growing trend, due to bad eating and the sedentary lifestyle. The whole point of this work consists of checking overweight and obesity in students that attend the "Projeto Guardião”, developed at the State School of Basic Education Estado de Goiás, in the city of Santa Cruz do Sul (RS). Twenty kids between 10 and 11 years of both gender had been part of the sample. The research was descriptive and in the collection of data a questionnaire was used contends questions of poisoning behavior, corporal parameters and physical activity. The anthropometryc Measure becomes a factor of diagnostic of the incidence of not transmissible diseases, being so the use of antropometrycs as indicators of Index Body Mass and Waist circunference was used in the interpretation of the results that presented obesity and overweight on the sample. We found that the female sedentarysm and the physical inactivity are higher getting predisposed to the overweight. The students with prevalence of obesity and overweight consume more unhealthy food than regular percentage. So, we are looking for a reflection about how School and the Physical Education can provide educational deeds for the sale of good food habits and for the practice of physical activity.