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In addition, there are more females overweight and
obese than males respectively 12.4% and 4.1%
versus 8, 8% and 0.6% of males.
- The 2.4% of boys reported smoking cigarettes.
- Most of the boys reported that goes to school on
foot, 27%, 25.8% go by car, 22.4% used public
transport, 14.5% took the moped, while only 3.9 %
use the bike to go to school. The choice of the means
to get to school is no significant differences by
gender.
- 19.4% reported not perform other physical
activities as well sporting activities; average is lower
than that in females, 13.4% compared to 15.5%
males.
- the most popular sport is soccer, 37%, water polo
with 8.2% follows with 7.3% basketball, volleyball
7.0%, 5.5% gymnastics, 4.2% practice athletics,
dance and karate, tennis 3.9%. Among males, the
most popular sport appears to be soccer, 36.7%,
followed by basketball with 7.3%, 4.5% as
swimming, tennis and athletics with 3.0%. Among
females appears to be the most popular sport
volleyball with 17.5%, followed by 15.5% with
gymnastics, dance with 13.4%, 12.4% with
swimming, karate with 7.2%, skating with 4.1% and,
with smaller percentages of other types of sports.
- For the category of sports there is a greater
adherence to those activities where the dynamic
component prevails over the static. Do not look for
sex differences with respect to the category of
sports.
Regarding the BMI divided by category of sport
shows that the 3a group has 15.4% of overweight,
the group 1b, 17.9% and 10.7% respectively of
overweight and obese people in the group 2b 14.3%
are overweight; in 3b there is a 37.5% overweight.
In the group 1c shows a 10.1% overweight and 0.1%
obese, 10.6% overweight in 2c and 1.5% obese,
while in 3c there is a 100.0% of normal weight.
Regarding the eating habits has been possible to
analyze that:
- only 2.4% of children reported not eating
breakfast, while 24.8% reported not to carry out the
mid-morning snack, as opposed to 16.4% who did
not make a mid-afternoon snack. Among females
3.1% does breakfast, compared with 1.5% of males,
22.7% of mid-morning snack, against 18.4% and
12.4% of the snack mid-afternoon, males 12.7%.
- 2.7% reported to follow a particular diet. Females
with 3.1% of males with 1.8%.
- 1.8% are intolerant to gluten, while 6.1% had other
types of food intolerances.
- 13.9% reported making use of dietary supplements,
7.6% of these makes use of vitamins and minerals,
3.9% of only vitamins, while the 1.5% of only
minerals. Among males, the use of supplements is
15.02%, of these 3.43% and 12.44% customarily
occasionally.
- The frequency of weekly consumption of food
shows that cereals and derivatives are consumed on
average 13.5 (± 4.7), fresh meat 4.7 (± 3.1),
preserved meats 3.3 (± 2.8), the fish 1.6 (± 1.4), milk
and yogurt 7.0 (± 3.8), cheese 3.7 (± 3.3), fresh fruit
8.2 (± 5.5), dried fruit 0.8 (± 1.8), vegetables 7.1 (±
5.6), legumes 1.7 (± 1.7), eggs 1.5 (± 1.1),
confectionery 4.8 (± 4.4) and sweetened drinks 1.6
(± 2.3).
T Student Test were used to compare the data with a
significance at P<.005.
There is a significant difference in weekly
consumption between males and females, fresh and
preserved meats, milk and yogurt, vegetables and
sweetened drinks (p<0.05).
4 DISCUSSION
In the survey for the year 2013 it was possible to
detect that in Tuscany the percentage of overweight
children is 19.6% and that of obese children is 7%.
The data is very worrying though slightly less than
the national average, being 22.2% of overweight
children and 10.6% of obese children. In addition to
this we must also point out that, from the data
collected, it appears that the children of our region
still do not reach the recommended levels of
physical activity. It is estimated that 1 child in 9
appears physically inactive, more females than
males, while just over 1 in 10 children has a level of
physical activity recommended for his age (Regione
Toscana 2012).
An analysis of the guys that lend themselves to
visiting sports fitness you can see that there is a
lower percentage of overweight children but
especially obese than those collected in the entire
region of Tuscany. This aspect is extremely
important considering the risk factors, not to
mention an incorrect harmonious growth of the
child, which may occur with increasing age.
For what concerns the conduct of a constant
physical activity, excluding sport, the results are not
very encouraging: nearly 1 in 5 children does not
carry out further physical activity in addition to
sports.
Regarding eating habits, even if they are better than
the data compared to their peers who do not practice
sports, the results are not very encouraging.