DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2018.v06i07.019

Pages: 1485-1489

The human organism’s capacity for physical activity decreases and the organism loses its fitness in a sedentary lifestyle. Obesity is a global epidemic which also affects children. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect that a four-week low intensity physical activity program will have on the liver enzyme levels, uric acid, urea and creatine kinase activity of obese and overweight boys. The study included 27 boys between the ages of 12-14 divided into two groups as the obese group of 12 boys and overweight group consisting of 15 boys. The children who participated in the study were included in a three-day-a-week program for four weeks. The AST, ALT, ALP, uric acid, urea and creatine kinase levels were quantified from plasma blood samples collected while resting in the beginning and end of the study. Statistical analysis of was performed using program SPSS 22.0 statistics software (SPSS Inc., Chicago, Illinois, USA). The Independent Samples T test was used to compare the two groups and the Paired Samples T test was used to analyze the difference between the pre-tests and post-tests of the groups. At the end of the study, it was found that the obese group had decreased their body weight and showed a significant increase in creatine kinase and ALP levels in favor of the post-test. The overweight group exhibited a decrease in BMI and a significant increase in ALP levels in favor of the post-test. None of the difference values between the two groups exhibited a significant change (p>0.05). Consequently, it can be stated that low intensity physical activity program applied to children results in a change in body weight, BMI, ALP and creatine kinase activity.