110-OVERLAP AND OBESITY IN CHILDREN OF PUBLIC CRECHE

Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic and worry in childhood is becoming more worrying, especially for the future that the child may have when it becomes adult and remaining obese. The objective of the present study is to investigate overweight and obesity in public day care children aged 4 to 6 years in a public day care center in Vitória. The sample consisted of 79 children of both sexes, 35 boys with 5.29 ± 0.83 years and 44 girls with 5.17 ± 0.96 years. The body mass index found in boys was 16.37 ± 1.92 kg / m2 and in girls it was 16.67 ± 1.80 kg / m2. From the study, it was possible to observe, unlike the evident tendency in Brazil, characterized by the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in detriment of the low weight rates.


METHODS
Cross-sectional study, with a n of 79 children, regularly enrolled, of both sexes being 35 boys and 44 girls between 4 and 6 years of age.
The informed consent form was sent to the parents or guardians of the children.
The variables evaluated in this study were: (a) age, determined based on the difference between the date of birth and the date of data collection; (B) weight (kg) and (c) height (cm).The weight and height measures were done in triplicate, and the calculated mean value was used.The equipment used was: mechanical balance of the brand Welmy with capacity for 120 kg and precision of 100g and a stadiometer of the brand Sanny.The levels of overweight and obesity were defined based on the Body Mass Index (BMI), based on the cut-off points for gender and age proposed by Cole et al (2000).
The equation used was that of Quebec where BMI = weight / height2 Statistical analysis was performed using the SPSS software version 20.0.All data sets were tested for normality and data were expressed as means and standard deviation.

RESULTS
The sample consisted of 79 children of both sexes, 35 boys with 5.29 ± 0.83 years and 44 girls with 5.17 ± 0.96 years.Table 1 shows the BMI of both sexes.Table 1: Anthropometric data collected with mean and standard deviation.

DISCUSSION
From the results of this study it can be observed that there was no prevalence of overweight or obese children other than the studies found in the prevalence of overweight and obesity rates in all age groups.(Ministry of Health, 2012, MARCHI-ALVES et al, 2011) From 1989 to 2006, studies show that the prevalence of underweight children under 5 years of age fell from 7.1% to 1.7%.This reduction is due to the improvement in the schooling level, the increase of the purchasing power of the families, expansion of basic health care, as well as the growth of basic sanitation services (MONTEIRO et al, 2009 andLIMA et al, 2010).However, in the sample studied, children are at the normal level.
In day-care centers, educational planning can be a significant way of reducing the prevalence of health problems among children and in future in adolescents and adults.Therefore, it is of paramount importance the performance of the physical education teacher in the school environment, as well as developing an educational work with the relatives.(Coutinho et al, 2012, Marche et al., 2012).

CONLUSION
From the study, it was possible to observe, unlike the evident tendency in Brazil, characterized by the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in detriment of the low weight rates.
It is worth mentioning that a limitation of the present study may have been due to the fact that the results obtained express the specific reality of an Educational Center.Thus, the need to develop more comprehensive research that allows a ABSTRACT: Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic and worry in childhood is becoming more worrying, especially for the future that the child may have when it becomes adult and remaining obese.The objective of the present study is to investigate overweight and obesity in public day care children aged 4 to 6 years in a public day care center in Vitória.The sample consisted of 79 children of both sexes, 35 boys with 5.29 ± 0.83 years and 44 girls with 5.17 ± 0.96 years.The body mass index found in boys was 16.37 ± 1.92 kg / m2 and in girls it was 16.67 ± 1.80 kg / m2.From the study, it was possible to observe, unlike the evident tendency in Brazil, characterized by the increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in detriment of the low weight rates.