ANALYSIS OF NUTRITION FOR BOYS AND GIRLS WHO ARE FIRST CYCLE PUPILS IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

The research involved 995 children from Montenegro, pupils from first cycle in primary school (first, second and third grade), with the aim of analysing the state of nutrition of children. The children's state of nutrition was verified by means of BMI percentile values. By analysing the results of our research, a worrying figure is that the subject population of boys, with age, are more and more faced with the issue of excessive body weight and are approaching the borderline of obesity. In order to deal preventively with issues that we and the subject population are faced with, it is necessary to aggressively act upon, above all, the reduction of hypokinesia, by raising awareness of physical activity, first of all in preschool institutions and schools, and subsequently by high-quality nutrition, and by educating children as well as their parents.