The healthy eating habits is a protective health factor while having inadequate eating habits increase different health problems in adults and particularly in children. Poor eating habits and the presence of psychological disorders, such as depression symptoms increase health risks. The main objective of this study was to determine the association among eating habits and symptoms of depression in a sample of Mexican children school, in a one-year follow-up study. With a non-experimental, longitudinal panel design, participated an intentional non-probabilistic sampling of 64 children (age range 8 to 10 years. The measurements were identified as evaluation 2016 and 2017. Participants answered in a one session the Child Depression Inventory (CDI) and the Overeating Questionnaire (OQ) after the informed-consent of their parents. It was found a higher number of correlations in evaluation 2017 in comparison 2016 (r s; p<. 05) in both, boy and girls samples. Specifically, the evaluation 2016, highlights a strong association between body image and total CDI (r s=-. 46; p<. 05) while in evaluation 2017, highlights a strong association between health habits and affective disturbance and total CDI (r s=. 62; p<. 05). In conclusion, boy and girls, body image perception gets worse with the presence depressive symptoms, but over time, high affective alteration gets worse depressive symptoms.