Doctors sound alarm on child fitness and health

New research published recently shows that almost half of all the country’s seven-year-olds lead such sedentary lives that they do not even take the one hour of exercise a day which the UK’s chief medical officers recommend as the bare minimum to boost their health and stop them becoming overweight or developing heart problems.  A recent report in the Guardian said that while 50.8% of children of that age do have one hour of exercise, the other 49.2% do not meet the official recommendation. The findings, published in the medical journal BMJ Open, have prompted renewed concerns about children’s lifestyles and soaring