Activity hours – How necessary for child’s right growth
Activity hours – How necessary for child’s right growth
The health magazines, newspapers’
health columns or articles by dieticians, physicians and child psychologists
everyone stresses upon right nutrition and balanced diet for children. Hardly anybody considers the factor of
utilizing those calories taken for healthy growth of body. It is the scientific fact that when the
nutrients are not consumed through activity they transform themselves into
cholesterol or fat. As per researches and studies conducted by agricultural
research laboratories, health institutes and forerunners healthcare complaints
of obesity among children are reinforced due to inactivity besides unhealthy
eating habits. According to dieticians,
health practitioners, consuming nutrients is equally important as is gaining
them. The child psychologists too agree that physical activity is necessary for
right mental and physical growth of children.
In the wake of mounting obesity
problems among children, as per studies conducted by various psychological
research centers and forerunners healthcare complaints of rising cases of
obesity among children are directly proportional to low physical activity. Generally when a child starts understanding
about surroundings and other people’s instruction at the age of three and right
at that age we make them sit on a desk for hours. In the current scenario after
school too, all that a child has for entertainment is mind games or video games
that he or she can sit with and play. In
this matter every childcare institute, health forums, healthcare tribunals and
forerunners healthcare complaints that in the race of making children sharper
and smarter we teach them to play mind games only. In name of physical activity
there is half an hour of cycling while rest of the twenty three and a half
hours are spent sleeping, reading, watching TV or playing video games that is
in the sitting or lying posture. According to research there have been rising
complaints of joint pains, added to this
as per review by various physicians and forerunners healthcare
complaints over weak bones and low stamina in young age of thirty to forty is
largely due to low physical activity during childhood.
Our body is like a machine and its
adequate mobility is necessary to maintain its strength and fitness. The fats
gained through diet are that thick layers that hinders mobility of bones while
the fat can be burned through physical activity only. In the childhood when
each system of body is yet in developing stage it becomes more necessary to
maintain balance of nutrition by depleting extra calorie intake.
