Four in five adolescents don't exercise enough, blame screen time: WHO

on global trends for adolescent physical activity, the UN health agency stressed that urgent action was needed to get teens off their screens and moving more.

It found that 81 per cent did not meet the WHO recommendation of at least an hour a day of physical activity such as walking, playing, riding a bike or taking part in organized sports. The report authors also pointed to poor infrastructure and insecurity making it difficult for adolescents to walk or bike to school.

In fact, girls were less active than boys in all but four countries -- Afghanistan, Samoa, Tonga and Zambia. But Guthold also pointed out that "a lot of physical activity promotion is more tailored towards boys." The U.S. for instance put in place an ambitious national plan for physical activity in 2010, but the efforts "for some reason only seem to reach boys."

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

i blame parents

I think you can also blame the parents who don’t set time limits on screen time.

More time needs to be provided during the day for movement for everyone especially children

firejessallen

I believe the intelligence level in certain parts of the brain will be declining in the younger generation who have been weaned on the pocket wizards (cell phones). In the foreseeable future, a world full of cell phone zombies, lost in the dictates of a blinking screen.

Blame FireJessAllen

Since when did'adolescent' have beards and facial hair? Amazing refugees have $1000 cell phones

Not a very diverse photo....

hehe are no other races in this pic?

why are there white native or other races in this pic?

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