Children’s Exercise: Hour a Day ‘Not Enough’

5th August, 2013

Newsletter, 24 September 2010, Physical Education, PT

[Source: Medical News Today]

Current recommendations for children to exercise an hour every day are “insufficient” to protect them from heart and blood circulation problems later in life.
Children under 10 years of age need at least 80 minutes of physical activity a day to keep them healthy, including 20 minutes of vigorous exercise, conclude researchers publishing in the journal BMC Medicine.
This new research into the links between exercise in younger children and the risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in adulthood is part of the European Commission-sponsored project known as IDEFICS (identification and prevention of dietary – and lifestyle – induced health effects in children and infants).
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