Promoción de la salud y prevención de enfermedades en adolescentes

Abstract

Physical activity is a resource that is used to lose weight and prevent obesity, especially in adolescents who are more inclined to a sedentary lifestyle due to the excessive use of virtual platforms, which is why the WHO constantly expresses itself in the creation of different physical activity campaigns specifically for adolescents. Physical activity along with exercise has proven to be an effective therapy to prevent diseases that can be chronic and that can have effects not only on the physical but also on the mental state of people. However, With the inconveniences presented globally by the Covid-19, some physical activity campaigns have been forgotten, since now the use of spaces where some kind of physical activity could be performed are suspended and that is why people in recent times have become more sedentary than before. In order to have good physical condition, it is not only the physical activity that is performed, but also the type of food that is eaten, which should be as healthy as possible, type of physical activity. In the present investigation the non-experimental method of transversal type was app lied, as a technique of data collection was used the same survey that was applied to 58 students, with which it was obtained that 50% of the sample does not perform any physical activity.