Staying fit is a life-long process, and if you want to encourage kids to get ripped as adults, monitoring their physical activity now is a good place to start. Childhood obesity is becoming a major national problem, and understanding what factors are keeping kids from engaging in physical activity is important to addressing this issue.
Researchers from Queen's University in Canada recently set out to determine what is making kids so unhealthy these days.
"Even if a child is physically active, this activity is really only making up a short period of their whole day, so it's important to look at other aspects of their day to see what's going on. Part of that is the kind of sedentary behaviors they engage in," said researcher Valerie Carson.
According to the scientists, some forms of sedentary behavior appear to be worse than others. For example, watching large amounts of TV was found to have a greater impact on cardiovascular health than spending time on the computer.
These findings suggest that limiting TV time and encouraging more physical activity could lead to a healthier generation.
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