LA ACTIVIDAD FÍSICA COMO FACTOR PREVENTIVO DE LA OBESIDAD INFANTIL EN ESTUDIANTES DE EDUCACIÓN BÁSICA DE LA UNIDAD EDUCATIVA JOSÉ DOLORES EN LA CIUDAD DE PEDERNALES

Abstract

Obesity is one of the transcendental health problems in our country, although the childhood is considered to be the healthiest stage in a boy or girl, it is a stage in which greater care must be taken in the nutritional aspect because many behavior patterns will be developed in the adulthood health. Under this statement the general objective was designed; To develop a program of physical activities that have an impact on the prevention of childhood obesity in the José Dolores elementary school in Pedernales city.When implementing the physical activities program, it was necessary to take into consideration the materials and methods to be used where the guideline of the mixed approach (qualitative-quantitative) is emphasized, whose fundamental purpose was to determine the relationship of the field research that contemplates the numerical part as quantitative, with the measurement of satisfaction in accordance with the objectives of the research qualitatively. The obtained results in this research were through the simple random sampling method of the population of 41 children, 14 were taken into consideration, the IPAQ A test and the Liam test, which show a high compensation of children who do not perform physical activity in their free or leisure time, which generates a sedentary state that affects the health and active physical state of boys and girls who were taken as a sample in the research. In this way it can be concluded that there is the relevance of proposing and implementing a program of physical and recreational activities that have an impact in the preventive control of obesity in the school