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PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH
BMI and nutritional status
- Body mass index increases with age for both sexes. Boys’ BMIs are
higher at all ages (19-23) than girls’ values (18-22).
. 65% of young people have a normal nutritional status, 22% are over¬
weight or obese. The proportion of overweight or obese students at all
ages is higher for boys than for girls. In the last twenty years, the rates
have increased for both sexes.
- Malnutrition affects about 13% of students in the total sample, signifi¬
cantly higher rates among girls and primary school students are seen
than among boys and secondary school students.
Body image
- 47% of students think that their weight is adequate, and about 35%
consider themselves fat. Among girls, the proportion of those who think
they are fat is much higher than among boys, which difference is even
more pronounced in the middle school age group. Since the turn of the
millennium, the proportion of young people who consider their body
weight too high has increased minimally.
- 18% of students see themselves as thin. The rates for boys are much
higher than for girls, especially in the middle school age group.
Self-reported health
. Less than a fifth of the students feel that their health is excellent, nearly
half as good, and nearly a third as worse. A higher proportion of boys
consider their health to be excellent than girls. In the case of girls, between
the 5th and 9th grades, the proportion of those who reports worse health
status increased, for boys, there is no definite direction among the age
groups. Since 2002, the proportion of young people who consider their
health to be excellent has never been as low as it was in 2022.