Abstract
The objective of the study is to verify the prevalence of overweight and obesity in adolescents enrolled in the sixth academic year of a public school in a city in Pará. All adolescents who fit the inclusion criteria were used for the research. Scales and measuring tapes were used to measure the data needed for the research, while questioning the sex and age of these young people so that the differences between the sexes can be compared and the age group in which each can be determined. one fit. Project approved by the Research Ethics Committee (CEP). 62 adolescents were analyzed, 28 of whom were female and the remainder were male. The average age was 12 years old, 69.4% was classified as eutrophic, similar proportions of adolescents with height between 1.0 - 1.49 m (48.4%) and between 1.5 - 1.99 (51.6%), higher frequency between 60 and 69 cm (42.0%) of waist circumference. The evaluation of the results showed that the prevalence of overweight among the female group is higher than the male group.