The relationship between physical activity level and weight gain in school-aged adolescents (12-16)

Abstract

The study aims to identify the relationship of the level of physical activity to weight gain in school- aged adolescents (12-16) For this purpose, we used the descriptive analytical method on a sample of 292 students from the different middle schools of Maatkas
¸chosen randomly. To collect the data¸ we used a from to measure the level of physical activity (Martin 2000) and anthropometric measurements to measure the height and weight to determine the body mass index after collecting the results and treating them statistically it was concluded that there is a weak inverse correlation between the level of physical activity and the body mass index.