Revista Brasileira de Obesidade, Nutrição e Emagrecimento

135-137

Authors: Antonio Coppi Navarro

Editorial

146-154

Authors: Ana Paula Schreiner

Introduction: infant obesity becomes a problem of major proportions every day. It’s a issue of concern, because of the morbidity related to it. Objective: establish the overweight and obesity prevalence in children of six eight years from education network of Schroeder-SC. Materials and methods: 483 infants were studied. Overweigh was defined as body mass index (BMI) equal or above the 85th percentile and obesity was defined as BMI equal or above the 97th percentile for age and gender, according to the news curves of WHO (2007). Results: 12.63% of children (10.25% male and 15.06% female) are overweight and 11.8% (13.52% male and 10.04% female) are obese. While the prevalence of overweight is higher in females, the prevalence of obesity is higher in males. Discussion: the values found are below than those observed in other studies. Conclusion: although the numbers found in this research were below those observed in other studies, is a significant value that must be reflected as replicate the national trend of childhood obesity. Key words: Prevalence. Child. Obesity. Overweight.

168-174

Authors: Cristiane Aparecida Pedroso Cózaro

Objective: To relate the menarche according to BMI and body fat percentage. Materials and Methods: To have the data to the first menstruation of girls method was used "status quo", and the girls that the response was positive retrospective method was used by the interview, were also collected data such as weight , height, chronological age and triceps skinfold, subscapular, regarding BMI and body fat percentage. About the materials we used, a stadiometer, a scale, measuring tape and skinfold. No records were used in adolescents with diseases that compromise the occurrence of menarche. The statistics used in this study was descriptive. Results: It is observed in this study that half of the girls about weight in relation to BMI and with a body fat percentage above the desirable level, half have had their first menstruation while the normal weight or those with a normal percentage of body fat, a value less presented have passed through menarche (30% to 40%). But it is clear that the advanced age of menarche in obese also in eutrophic with a mean age of 11 years. Conclusion: The results of girls overweight indicate that elevated BMI both as the percentage of body fat, influencing early menarche, but one can not attribute this anticipation only to change the nutritional profile of the sample. Other untested factors may be contributing to this. Key words: Menarche, BMI, Percent body fat.