Abstract
School based lifestyle interventions have many advantages, which can effectively reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity, improve children and their families knowledge of overweight and obesity, and enhance their cognition of behaviors related to energy balance. Moreover, it can improve the level of cardiometabolic risk (CMR). By searching PubMed, CNKI and Wanfang databases, the article review the effects of school based physical activity and dietary interventions on children s blood pressure, blood lipids, blood glucose, and other CMR indicators, and analyze the differences among different groups of people, such as gender, age, and race, in order to provide the evidence for future school based intervention studies on overweight and obesity in children.