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Physical Activity And Eating Habits For A Group Of Adolescents From Iasi

2019; Linguagem: Inglês

10.15405/epsbs.2019.02.24

2357-1330

Florin Dima, Magda Negrea, Adriana Albu,

Physical Education and Training Studies

The physical development of adolescents is dependent on some external factors, among which nutrition and physical activity play a particularly important role. Physical activity contributes to the harmonious development of the body and the control of body weight. Also, the practice of systematic physical exercise leads to the increase of energy consumption for the body, the regulation of appetite, the harmonious development of the musculoskeletal system, the maintenance of the circulatory and respiratory systems. Practically speaking, children and young people cannot go on weight loss diets because the main risk affects their normal growth and development process. What they need to do instead is to increase the time spent on systematic physical exercise under the supervision of specialists in the field. Young girls are interested in identifying with the ideal of beauty (the slim woman), but do not resort to systematic physical exercise to achieve the desired result. The study was carried out using a group of 218 teenagers from two high schools in Iasi and Pascani. Concerning these young people, we analysed their physical development, exercise and eating habits. Physical development of adolescents in the study group reveals the existence of only 14.67% of overweight people, the time allotted for physical activity being modest (under 15 minutes in 22.8% of cases). Conclusion: Adolescents do not resort to increased exercise time when they are interested in controlling body weight.