Brisk walk for about 15 minutes in a day can prevent kids from developing obesity. This is the notion that British researchers have come out transpiring after studying about 5,500 children.
As per the findings of this study, children who increased their physical activity levels by 15 minutes a day of moderate exercise, their chances of developing obesity came down startlingly by almost 50 per cent.
Findings of this study seem quite plausible. However, as far as views expressed by author Prof. Chris Riddoch of Britain’s Bath University are concerned, to be fully agree with them is somewhat difficult, especially when he remarks that this study is the first to provide robust evidence on the link between physical activity and childhood obesity. In my opinion, in the past too there have been many studies, which have shown that participation in physical activities helps keeping childhood obesity at bay.
Still, the importance of this study can’t be ignored because childhood obesity is fast encroaching upon kids all round the world, making kids more prone to several mental as well as physical disorders. Find out how the serpent of childhood obesity is raising its hood:-
• Kids in the Throes of Obesity
• Childhood Obesity Goes Global
• Childhood Obesity Causes Diabetes and Other Health Problems
• Childhood Obesity Kicks off Early Puberty in Girls
• Childhood obesity rises dramatically in the UK
• Will Rising Childhood Obesity Decrease U.S. Life Expectancy?
• Childhood Obesity is on the Rise
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Via: CBC
