A Study about the incidence of inadequate lifestyle on excess weight in urban area pubertal schoolchildren

Abstract

The study starts from the assumption that inadequate lifestyles in pubertal schoolchildren may influence the growth and development of their organism.
The purpose of this research is to assess whether there is a significant number of puberty age pupils from urban areas who adopt an inadequate lifestyle, with negative effects on the growth and development oftheir organism.
A questionnaire-based survey was conducted with respect to nutrition and physical activities (Appendix 1) [3] on a number of 365 girls and 392 boys from General Schools no. 11, 13, 15 and 30 of Brasov municipality. The results revealed that an important percentage of the questioned schoolchildren have adopted inadequate lifestyles by consuming hyper-caloric, fat rich foods, concentrated sweets in association with lack of physical activities during school time and outside.