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Wellbeing of Children Declines over Summer Vacation: Lack of Physical Activity
Now-a-days children are fond of spending their vacation period over gaming consoles and tablets along with a sack of crisps and carbonated beverages.
Many
researchers have found out that, there might be considerable health
deterioration due to lack of physical activity among the children during the
summer holidays.
The
EduSports, which shapes the sports curriculum for schools, proclaims that
fitness levels of the kids will recede after the vacation.
The dawn
of the internet era, brings fall off in the physical work outs during the
summer vacation, the study revealed.
The study
involved wrapping around 77, 699 children between the ages of 7 to 17 across 68
cities. This study involves various sports fitness parameters among children
including flexibility, muscular strength, sprinting and body mass index (BMI).
This
survey has three phases including first at the beginning of the academic year
2011-2012, second at the end of this academic year after offered from a planned
sports program and at last after the summer vacation.
The
results has found that, children lost both their higher and lower body potency
after the break and also only 59 % of the children has equal galloping potency.
Children in Tamil Nadu illustrated a higher fall than the national standards in most constraints, aside from higher and lower mass power and flexibility.
