Abstract
Objectives: This study aimed to review and investigate nutritional education strategies in the prevention and control of childhood obesity. Method: This is a literature review, where it used articles, books and material published in the last 10 years, published in the Virtual Health Library, SciELO and Google Scholar databases. Results: Food and Nutrition Education is an important tool for the prevention and control of Childhood Obesity, and the School is understood as an ideal place to implement the pedagogical methodologies to be worked on. Final considerations: The study showed the importance of working with nutritional education in schools, so that these practices are applied in everyday life in food choices, reflecting in the short term in children less prone to childhood obesity and in the long term healthier people, based on the assumption that identify which positive and negative factors of their diet through nutritional education.