Physical education to check obesity in adolescents from low-income families
Posted on 12. Nov, 2009 by Turbo in Health
According to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco and UC Berkeley, physical education can help in checking obesity in adolescent groups coming from low-income families.
Their findings published in Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, shows link between participation of a teen in physical education class regularly to increase in cardiovascular fitness and low BMI.
In fact, the study says that school-based physical education so far may not have been exploited and it could be a great tool to address childhood obesity.
Many fitness experts remark that the importance of physical education be rised in schools all over and if tougher standards are set up it will do good to curb childhood obesity.
The study showed that students exercising 20 minutes during the school-based physical education class had had significantly improved cardiovascular fitness and low BMI (body mass index).
