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The life style for most young people needs to be changed, unhealthy life style is a slippery road and can lead to immobility during old age and painful experiences in last phase of life.
So exercise should be part of your life, just like brush, bath, eat!!!!
Currently, guidelines recommend that young people should participate in physical activity of at least moderate intensity for 1 hour per day. However, the evidence for this advice comes from studies that may have been biased because they relied on children recalling the amount of exercise they do. These studies have also only looked at single risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
In the latest research, Lars Bo Andersen (Norwegian School of Sports Science, Oslo, Norway) and colleagues randomly selected over 1730 children, aged 9 or 15 years, from schools in Denmark, Estonia, and Portugal to take part. They measured a combination of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the children including blood pressure, weight, waist circumference, insulin resistance, and cholesterol and calculated a combined risk factor score for each child. Physical activity was monitored for four consecutive days using a device called an accelerometer, which was strapped to childrens' hips, to measure acceleration of body movement. The researchers found that the combined risk factor score for cardiovascular disease decreased with increasing physical activity. The lowest risk factor scores were found in the 9 year olds who did 116 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity activity (corresponds to a walking speed of around 4 km/h) and the 15 year olds who did around 88 minutes daily. The research suggests that guidelines should recommend one and a half hours or more of moderate intensity exercise per day for young people instead of one hour.
So exercise should be part of your life, just like brush, bath, eat!!!!
Currently, guidelines recommend that young people should participate in physical activity of at least moderate intensity for 1 hour per day. However, the evidence for this advice comes from studies that may have been biased because they relied on children recalling the amount of exercise they do. These studies have also only looked at single risk factors for cardiovascular disease.
In the latest research, Lars Bo Andersen (Norwegian School of Sports Science, Oslo, Norway) and colleagues randomly selected over 1730 children, aged 9 or 15 years, from schools in Denmark, Estonia, and Portugal to take part. They measured a combination of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in the children including blood pressure, weight, waist circumference, insulin resistance, and cholesterol and calculated a combined risk factor score for each child. Physical activity was monitored for four consecutive days using a device called an accelerometer, which was strapped to childrens' hips, to measure acceleration of body movement. The researchers found that the combined risk factor score for cardiovascular disease decreased with increasing physical activity. The lowest risk factor scores were found in the 9 year olds who did 116 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity activity (corresponds to a walking speed of around 4 km/h) and the 15 year olds who did around 88 minutes daily. The research suggests that guidelines should recommend one and a half hours or more of moderate intensity exercise per day for young people instead of one hour.
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