Daily exercise reduces the risk of overweight and obesity among schoolchildren, according to a study by the Heart Center, University of Leipzig in Germany which has been made public during EuroPRevent 2009, the annual meeting of the European Society of Cardiology. Continue reading the arículo
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School children who were still conducting classes in a daily exercise reduced their overall prevalence of obesity, improved their exercise capacity, increase their levels of good cholesterol (HDL) and reduced their systolic blood pressure.
According to Claudia Walther, director of the study, “it is clear that children today have a different lifestyle from the past. They are less active and our hypothesis was that an increase in its activity through exercises reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in their future life. ”
The study involved 188 schoolchildren with a mean of 11.1 years for seven different kinds of schools that were assigned to a routine exercise program in their schools or two lessons per week sporting standard. The exercise program involved daily exercise that included at least 15 minutes of resistance training.
The first year showed significant benefits for those in the group of daily exercises: in just one year the proportion of overweight and obese children had decreased from 13 to 9 percent in the control group but had increased from 11 to 13 percent .
Moreover, the exercise capacity of children had also increased in the exercise group by 29 percent. In a similar vein, the levels of triglycerides and HDL cholesterol and systolic blood pressure, improvement among children who did more exercise.
“Even with these results the first year we can say that regular physical activity has a beneficial effect on body composition, exercise capacity and markers of cardiovascular risk in children,” says Walther. The researcher added that the track during the next 10 to 12 years will provide an idea of how the modification of the risk this early age translates into benefits in later life.
Walther concludes that the most surprising result was the effect of daily exercise on body weight, an effect that had not been discovered as early as marking or in other studies. “These children are normal so we did not expect a significant reduction in the overall prevalence of obesity or overweight.”