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METHODS: It is a non-experimental study, with 337 children\/youth, ages between 8 and 17 years (12.61\u00b12.96), mostly from the rural inland of Portugal. In data collection we used a sociodemographic and anthropometric questionnaire, a weekly register table of EA and Kid-Kindl (QoL). Statistical analysis (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05) were performed in SPSS-IBM 25. RESULTS: Lower BMI was associated with better EA (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.001), PA (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05) and self-esteem (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.01) and worse scores on family subscale of QoL. Female showed higher fruit intake (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05). The older has shown better results. PA is positively correlated with QoL (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.01) and EA (p\u200a&lt;\u200a0.05). CONCLUSIONS: It is important to explore other relevant social and family dimensions, to promote intervention programs with parents, school and community, as well as healthy practices policies. 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