Experts have now found in a study that more and more children and young people do too little sport. This lack of exercise can certainly have consequences as far as the health of students is concerned.
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Too Little Exercise Can Make You Fat
Too little sport and exercise often leads to children and young people becoming fat more quickly. According to experts, the fact that so little sport is played is also due to the All-day schools. Sports clubs have long been drawing attention to the fact that children lack free time as a result of longer lessons. Free time that they used to spend much more often in sports clubs. Yet exercise and sports would be so important. It has been proven that children who sit a lot and get a little exercise to become fat much faster than other children who get enough exercise.
At Least 90 Minutes Of Exercise A Day
Health experts recommend that children should get at least 90 minutes of exercise a day. What is needed here is better cooperation between schools and sports clubs to ensure more exercise. For example, the clubs could ensure that there are more sports programs at the schools. Just make sure there’s enough choice so that there’s something fun for everyone. Boys could play soccer or badminton, for girls there could be dance offerings, just to name a few examples. But before that, each of you should make sure that you get more exercise. Simply forego an hour of computer games and instead play a bit of soccer with your friends on the Soccer field for a bit.
Explanation Of The Difficult Words:
All-day schools have the goal of accommodating students during a large part of the day. It is an alternative to after-school care and is sometimes run as a cooperative venture between the school and after-school care.
A Football field in Germany is a soccer field, usually set up by the respective city or municipality, that is available for community use to children and young people up to a certain age.
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