In Brazil, overweight and obesity are considered
important nutritional deviations. The storage of body
fat at school age tends to linger into adolescence, and
has physiological and pathological effects on adulthood.
For this reason, characteristics such as risk groups and
possibilities of success of actions to be implemented
mean that children and adolescents with excess weight
are a target group for strategies aiming at prevention
and control of overweight and related illnesses