Abstract
Objective: Promote intervention against obesity through a lecture on health education for students at a school in a municipality in Pará and assess the nutritional status of students. Methods: This is a clinical, quantitative, and longitudinal study with a sample of 100 students aged 11 to 16 years. Results: Of the 100 children, 17% are overweight / obese, 55% are eutrophic and 28% are below normal for age. After extensive data analysis, a lecture strategy was developed to address all the problems highlighted, an explanatory folder was elaborated that helped us during the explanation and the children were very interested and participatory, and most of them were motivated to change some of them. everyday behaviors. Conclusion: There was a slight prevalence of overweight and obesity among students. The intervention was satisfactory, covering as many participants as possible who showed interest and learned about the theme, which implies that information on childhood and youth obesity should always be addressed in schools.