Abstract

Working with children requires a special approach due to the widedifferences that are seen within and between diverse gender and age groups.We hypo these that we had a possibility to get information on the relationship between obesity, physicalactivity, and inactivity in children 11 and 14-years.We expect that boys will be more active than girls.We expect that children from local area are leaner than central area.

Subjects and methods: Cross section survey of 306 boys and 313 girls,(11 and 14 years old)-randomly selected in 6 different schools in Tirana placed in the center and local area on overweight and obesity phenomena

Conclusion: The data of this study show a non-significant situation or problem of overweight and obesity in children, both in center and local area. A contrary what believed, there is an underweight problem in girls11 years from local area