Weight Management and Healthy Eating in Schoolchildren

Discuss weight management and healthy eating in schoolchildren from a parent’s perspective.

Describe factors that influence unhealthy eating, which were delimited as Barriers to Childhood Obesity Prevention. Also, define family factors and institutional/school environment barriers as factors that originate within the school, which limits healthy eating or healthy weight maintenance among school children aged 8-14 years old. Include information on obesity in scholars, also on the characteristic of physical activities in schools, and Barriers to Childhood Obesity Prevention in these populations. Describe the characteristics of the population of children and what is the frequency of overweight and obesity.