MORE EXERCISE AND LESS TV FOR SLIM KIDS

Children who regularly exercise and limit their time in front of the TV and computer are much less likely to be overweight than their peers.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that children devote no more than two hours per day to watching TV and playing video games.

Experts also encourage children to exercise regularly; some groups, including the AAP, recommend that boys move enough to take 13,000 steps each day, while girls should strive for 11,000. Another common recommendation is for children and teenagers to get at least one hour of moderate exercise on most, if not all, days of the week.

Researchers looked at whether there were weight differences between children who met or did not meet recommendations for "screen time" and exercise.

They found that among 709 7-12 year-olds, those who did not meet either recommendation were three to four times more likely to be overweight than their peers who met both guidelines.

The findings show that screen time and exercise are each independently associated with the odds of a child being overweight.

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Super Healthy Tip...

This is one of those studies which hopefully seems blindingly obvious to most of others – “you mean that if kids move more and sit around less they are less likely to get fat?” – amazing!

Without resorting to the “when I was young I used to walk 5 miles to and from school, played and trained for 2 sports every week, mowed the lawn and dug the veggie patch every week, washed the windows and rode my bike everywhere because mum didn’t have a car” discussion – I’m sure most of us have observed that the next generation is less physically active than past ones?

It must become a high priority to reverse this trend or we will see the movement towards younger morbidly obese children, menstrual ten year olds, diabetic teenagers, cardiovascular risky twenty year olds, and osteoporotic thirty year olds accelerate…