Children and young adults who are couch potatoes could wind up with enlarged hearts, increasing their risk of heart attack, stroke and early death.
Childhood and teenage sedentary behavior amounts to a “ticking time bomb,” researcher Andrew Agbaje said in a news release. He's an associate professor of clinical epidemiology and“There is growing evidence that childhood sedentariness is a health threat that needs to be taken seriously,” he said.
Kids who regularly worked out even harder tended to increase their heart mass by about 5%, as a result of making the muscle stronger.
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