Obesidade em crianças e adolescentes durante a pandemia de COVID-19 no Brasil

Abstract

Knowing that obesity has become a public health problem for years and with the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has worsened even further, during this period the means of communication and electronic media have become the main source of entertainment, and people spent a lot of time using them and consuming faster food, resulting in a sedentary lifestyle and obesity, thus the interest in building this work arose, whose main objective is to show how the COVID-19 Pandemic affected health and eating habits of people, especially children and adolescents, based on reading some articles focused on the topic, published on platforms such as Google Scholar, SciELO and official websites, between the years 2018 and 2023. A methodology based on bibliographical research and According to the analysis of the work, it was possible to observe that everyone agrees that social isolation was considered one of the most relevant factors in increasing the number of obese children and adolescents, thus it was concluded that, with the end of the pandemic, school, has become one of the main places considered to reverse the situation by encouraging physical activities, after all, it is in this space that its public spends most of the day, but the family also has an obligation to offer healthy foods, as well as promoting and provide physical exercise, even though play.