The juvenile obesity is
correlated to dietary and physical activity. Moreover, the rural or urban
context could affect other aspects like time available to practice sport or the
availability of sport facilities. Thus, this brief report investigated the
relationship between origin and food habits in children belonging to different
BMI categories. Over than1400 primary school students were interviewed
with their parents about their food habits. All answers were stratified
according to origin (rural/urban) and to BMI categories as defined in
literature. The percentage of normal weight, overweight and obese children
between rural and urban context were similar (p > 0.05). All the BMI categories were familiar to have
breakfast and no differences were found between rural or urban context (p > 0.52). Over 70% of children had
the principal meal in at least 15 minutes. In particular, all of them used to watch TV
during this moment: no differences were found between urban/rural or BMI
categories (p = 0.87 and p = 0.98). In general, most of urban
children performed physical activity less than seven hours/week, while normal
weight subjects were more active than obese one (p = 0.04). We concluded that school promotion and
municipalities/institutions intervention could be a good solution to reach all
children in environment where the amount of facilities is often poor.
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