Araújo, Fábio ResendeGuilherme, João Vitor da Silva2018-07-092021-09-202018-06-13GUILHERME, João Vitor da Silva. Associação entre a atividade física e o estado nutricional dos escolares de Santa Cruz. 2018. 41f. Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso (Graduação em Nutrição) - Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde do Trairi (FACISA), Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Santa Cruz, 2018.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/34685Practice of physical activity and the nutritional status of schoolchildren of Santa Cruz Abstract: Studies have shown that nutrition allied to Physical Education are resources for the control of obesity and overweight, for adults and children. As found from studies and research, more active children have a lower percentage of body fat and lower values of body mass index (BMI). In this context, this research has a cross - sectional design and involves students from the 1st to 5th year of elementary school - initial years, enrolled in 08 schools of the municipal public school system of the urban area of the city of Santa Cruz (RN), being 158 boys from 7 to 13 years of age and 132 girls from 7 to 13 years of age, totaling about 290 students. The cross-sectional observational study consisted of the collection of data in the school context, by students of various periods of the nutrition course, from the application of a questionnaire with closed questions, with variables that punctuated the activities performed by the students during the interview, together with data collection, anthropometric measures were performed related to physical activity and nutritional status of the students. From the data tabulation, the results showed that the majority of the individuals were overweight and obese regardless of the physical activity rate. The relationship between nutritional status and physical activity was only a tendency for the more obese to be more sedentary than the more active ones. These results contribute to evaluate the nutritional status of schoolchildren in the municipal school network in Santa Cruz (RN).embargoedAccessEstado nutricionalatividade físicasaúde do escolarobesidade na infânciabachelorThesis