The human beings experience a series of fundamental needs and one of those of the most important is the food, since it is by means of the ingestion of diverse food that manages to store in the organism elements that are fundamental, to help to have a suitable and like that bill of health go I end all the functions of the organism. The epidemic of the infantile obesity at present stems from one without number of factors and is for this that it becomes important to identify the grounds of this problematics. In agreement to the mentioned it becomes important to realize studies that allow to identify the factors that affect the minors, of there there is born the need to investigate and determine the factors that influence the overweight and the obesity of children and girls from 5 to 10 years in a public college and one deprived of the city of Tulua Valle. This one is a quantitative study, descriptive transversal realized to 191 students; 127 students of the public school and 64 of the school of the city of Tulua Valle in the year 2017. The results demonstrate a major percentage of overweight and obesity in the private school with 23,4 % and 7,8 % respectively, whereas in the public school one found overweight in 11,8 % and obesity in 7 % of the boys and girls; 57,8 % of the population of the private school and 49,6 % of the public school qualified in suitable IMC.