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Differences in morphological characteristics among preschool children with regard to the involvement in exercise programs and connection to the parents’ nutritional condition

The aim of this study is to determine the differences in anthropometric morphological characteristics between the experimental group, which is participating in the kinesiology program in kindergarten, and the control group, which is not participating, as well as to determine whether there are differences between boys and girls in the group. One of the aims is to determine the relationship between the morphological characteristics of children with indicators of the nutritional condition of their parents, and to determine whether there are differences between the parents whose children are involved in an additional sports program and those parents whose children are not. Based on the obtained results it can be determined that the studied preschool children differ significantly in the space of morphological characteristics with respect to age, gender and group. The total of the obtained results of the correlation between the morphological characteristics of children with nutritional condition of their parents indicates a significant influence of parents on their children's anthropometric characteristics. The obtained significant differences in fathers are observed in the body mass index and the obesity index (WHR) in favor of fathers whose children are involved in the sports program

morphological characteristics ; preschoolers ; parents

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