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The children and the teenagers don't move enough for their age! And this important sedentary lifestyle would be thus one of the big reasons of the obesity epidemic, for the same reason as the malbouffe. It is the report of an American survey, whose results should make think the French parents.
You know it, one advises the adults to make 30 minutes by curbed physical activity day. But the children and teenagers have more important needs: according to the specialists, they must make at least one hour by physical activity day curbed to intense. To verify such so was well the case, the researchers equipped some small Americans therefore with accéléromètres (sorts of podometers improved that the acceleration measures and no the number of step). And the report was without call: to 9 years, the children were well beyond this number (3 hours per day), but it falls strongly to 15 years. The teenagers pass indeed unless 50 minutes of physical activity per day in week, and paradoxically to 35 minutes per maximum day the weekend!
What are the reasons of this permanence? Certainly the numeric leisures, consoles of game and other televisions... But also the lack of infrastructures, in the cities notably. In France, the children and teenagers are also threatened by the sedentary lifestyle. An original initiative is thrown besides by the Reciprocity French, in partnership with the National union of the School Sport (UNSS), to make move the children, in order to fight against the obesity. The operation will start to the start of the academic year 2008 in the colleges of four pilot regions: Burgundy, Lorraine, Franche-Comté and Island-Of-France. To the program notably: of the balances of health and advice for an adapted sporty practice. While waiting, don't hesitate to show the example to your children, if you want that they move more!
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