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[David P. Dillard]

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Doctors Sound Alarm on Child Fitness and Health

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Doctors Sound Alarm on Child Fitness and Health

New Report Prompts Fears over Soaring Obesity,
Showing Half of Seven-Year-Olds Are Not Doing Enough
Exercise

Denis Campbell,

health correspondent

The Guardian

Wednesday 21 August 2013 18.31 EDT

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/aug/21/
doctors-sound-alarm-child-fitness

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New research published on Thursday shows that almost half of all the
country's seven-year-olds lead such sedentary lives that they do not even
take the one hour of exercise a day which the UK's chief medical officers
recommend as the bare minimum to boost their health and stop them becoming
overweight or developing heart problems. While 50.8% of children of that
age do have one hour of exercise, the other 49.2% do not meet the official
recommendation.

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The findings, published in the medical journal BMJ Open, have prompted
renewed concerns about children's lifestyles and soaring childhood
obesity, and whether the key pledge of last year's London Olympics - to
"inspire a generation" to take part in sport - will ever be realised. It
is already known from the government's National Child Measurement
Programme in England that by the final year of primary school 33.9% of
pupils are either overweight (14.7%) or obese (19.2%).

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The four home nations' medical advisers believe all children and young
people should do at least an hour's moderate to vigorous physical activity
every day. But results from using accelerometers to measure the activity
levels of 6,497 seven-year-olds over the course of a week show that in
2008-09, when the research was undertaken, exactly half (50%) of the
pupils were sedentary for at least 6.4 hours a day.

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Girls were particularly inactive: just 38% did the recommended hour of
exercise, compared with 63% of boys. Children of Indian origin were the
least active of seven ethnic groups, while just 43% of seven-year-olds in
Northern Ireland managed the hour, compared with 52.5% in Scotland, the
most active home nation.

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Interestingly, children whose mothers had never worked or who were
long-term unemployed were the most likely to do at least an hour's
physical activity and were the least sedentary, while children from
two-parent families were less active than those being brought up by just
their mother.

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The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, which represents the
UK's 11,000 specialist children's doctors, said it was worried about the
trend towards so many children entertaining themselves indoors in front of
devices rather than outdoors as previous generations did.

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Half of all UK 7 year-olds not getting enough exercise

23 August 2013

MRC Centre of Epidemiology for Child Health

Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics at

UCL Institute of Child Health

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ich/research-ich/mrc-cech/MRCCECH-news/
Half-of-UK-7-year-olds-sedentary-Dezateux

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Among the four UK countries, children in Northern Ireland were least
active with just 43% managing 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical
activity every day, while children in Scotland (52.5%) were most likely to
achieve the minimum daily recommended duration of more intense activity.

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Around 52% of English children managed 60 minutes each day but there were
some regional differences, with children living in the North West (58%)
most likely and those in the Midlands (46%) the least likely to meet the
guidelines.

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In an accompanying podcast, senior author Professor Carol Dezateux
describes the gender differences in exercise levels as "striking" and
calls for policies to promote more exercise in girls including ballgames,
playground games and dancing.

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The authors refer back to the promise of the London 2012 Olympic Games,
which was to inspire a generation to take part in sport.

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"The results of our study provide a useful baseline and strongly suggest
that contemporary UK children are insufficiently active, implying that
effort is needed to boost (physical activity) among young people to the
level appropriate for good health," they write.

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This is likely to require population wide interventions, they say,
including policies to make it easier for children to walk to school, in a
bid to increase physical activity and curb the amount of time they are
sedentary.

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