Stop Playing Games With Your Kids
Obesity rates are on the climb and we need to get things under control. Even worse, more and more kids are becoming overweight and obese due to inactivity. With the advent of game systems and computers (technology), kids are spending hours each day in front of the television or have tablets glued to their palms playing video games. I get it, video games are fun and some actually improve hand-eye coordination, but it’s time to put the controller down and start moving.
Kids need to move more
Researchers from around the globe came together to take a look at childhood obesity. Their study used a 20-year follow-up of 1,792 participants who were part of a childhood health and fitness survey in Australia. The survey was used on children whose ages ranged from seven to fifteen. The survey documented their cardiovascular fitness using a 1-mile run as well as their waist circumference to look at their abdominal fat levels. As an adult, the subjects were then asked to travel to one of thirty-four clinics in Australia where they went through more health and fitness assessments.
What these researchers found was that the children who were more active as a child had a higher aerobic fitness level and were 36% less likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome in early adulthood. This proved to help prevent coronary artery disease, Type 2 Diabetes, as well as stroke. This is amazing news as most studies out there today are focused on adults rather than kids. The study clears a path to allow more focus to be put on kids and what is needed in order to prevent risk factors from surfacing when they become adults.
One researcher said, “We found that participants who had low fitness levels in childhood but increased their relative fitness level by adulthood had a markedly lower prevalence of metabolic syndrome than those who remained low fit, and this was especially true for those with higher levels of abdominal fat as children.”
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