Child Fitness Levels are declining around the world

From news reports..

Sedentary lifestyles are making children less fit - even among those who are not obese, a study suggests.

Essex University staged fitness tests on 600 10-year-olds a decade apart in an area with low levels of obesity. Read More.....

Children's fitness declining across the world, study finds.

Even children who have not got fat have become less fit over the past decade, according to research published today.

Obesity is not the only enemy of children's health, according to sports and exercise specialists writing in the medical journal, Archives of Disease in Childhood. They say that even those children who are not overeating are frighteningly inactive and may pay the price in terms of their future health.. Read More...

Children's fitness levels in the UK are falling at twice the global average rate, regardless of obesity, research has showed.

While around the world fitness is falling at about 4% a decade among youngsters, the UK rate is 8%, experts said.

They described the fall as "large and worrying" and said there could be a need to monitor fitness levels among schoolchildren. Read More...