Publication details
REDUCTION OF BODY WEIGHT IN CHILDREN BY APPROPRIATE DIET AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | 10th International Conference On Kinanthropology "Sport and Quality of Life" |
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| Field | Sport and leisure time activities |
| Keywords | children; percentiles of BMI; overweight; obesity; healthy nutrition; physical activity; parents |
| Description | There were 41 research children (16 boys and 25 girls), who stayed sanatorium for children with different kinds of disorders include for children suffering from overweight or obesity. The program for the reduction of body weight contained rehabilitation procedures, strengthening physical fitness, regular workouts in a gym, games in the open air and walking. A special diet was composed for children suffering from obesity. Together with the physical activities, the aim of the diet was to reduce body weight of obese children. At the beginning and at the end of the cure, basic anthropometric parameters were recorded for each child. At the end of the stay, the children’s body weight was measured. The results proved that the program for reducing body weight was successful for all children. Boys lost in average 4.61 ± 1.68 kg, girls lost in average 3.65 ± 1.33 kg. |