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A global report highlights that children around the world are leading sedentary lifestyles and failing to maintain healthy growth and development.
The report of the Global Active Healthy Kids Alliance (AHKGA) – a non-profit organization based in Australia – has shown that modern lifestyles, including increased screen time, increasing urbanization of communities and the increasing automation of manual tasks, contribute to an omnipresent public health problem.
"Global trends, including excessive screen time, contribute to a generation of inactive children and put them on a dangerous path," said Mark Tremblay, president of the AHKGA and a professor at University of Ottawa in Canada.
"Inactive children are exposed to physical, mental, social and cognitive health problems, and this generation will face a range of challenges, including the effects of climate change, increasing globalization and the consequences of rapid technological change." he added.
For the study, published in the Journal of Physical Activity and Health, the team compared 49 countries from six continents to badess global trends in physical activity among children in developed and developing countries.
The results showed that countries such as Slovenia, Zimbabwe and Japan had the most active children and youth overall and that physical activity was a way of life for them.
Overall physical activity is mainly affected by active transportation, which is a necessity in everyday life.
For the sake of the health and future of our children, we need to integrate physical activity in all societies and change social norms for children to move, the researchers noted.
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