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Introduction: Overweight and obesity is a serious global health problem in minors related to multiple chronic degenerative or fatal diseases.Aim: To analyze the results of available scientific studies of educational interventions in the management of overweight or obesity in adolescents.Methodology: Those studies found in a database between 2014-2019 that performed intervention or management of overweight or obesity in a population between 6 and 18 yearsof age were included.Results and Discussion: Fourteen studies met the inclusion criteria of which only three performed a probabilistic sampling being these more significant. Different types of interventions were identified from educational, cognitive-behavioral and physicalactivity promotion. The variables with the greatest significant difference were body composition and waist circumference, the Body Mass Index still has no significant difference.Conclusion: Educational interventions achieve an important role in the management of overweight or obesity having significant changes in the short, medium and long term
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Aims: To identify the relationship between calories intake, physical activity and body mass index in adolescents in Colima Mexico.Study Design: A cross-sectional study analytic, observational.Place and Duration of the Study: Colima and Tecoman, Mexico.Methodology: Itwas designed in adolescents, of both genders, with a BMI in 85thpercentile or greater, where the average daily calorie intake was quantified with the SNUT survey and the level of physicalactivity with the International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Anthropometry to obtain the BMI. The stage of change of the trans-theoretical model was identified. Statistical analysis was Pearson's r between calories and BMI and between physical activity and BMI, systolic and diastolicblood pressure with BMI, and the stages of change