Keyword: «health of children and adolescents»

The article is devoted to the role of nutrition and physical activity in maintaining optimal body weight in children and adolescents. The authors note that rational nutrition of children and adolescents is a food that provides harmonious growth, adequate morphological and functional maturation of various organs and tissues, and optimal indicators of psychomotor and intellectual development.

The article examines some modern aspects of the eating behavior of overweight children and adolescents, theoretically confirms the feasibility of the coordinated application of methods of educating their eating behavior in the framework of regular and extracurricular activities.