Sweltering weather is another formidable barrier to kids getting enough physical activity, finds a new scientific review
Andriy Andriyenko/SOPA Images/LightRocket—Getty Imagesetting kids to be active in a modern world is a tough sell. It can be hard to compete with indoor comforts like video games, television, and air conditioning.
Sweltering weather is another formidable barrier to kids getting enough physical activity, finds a newthat analyzed more than 150 studies. Children today are about 30% less aerobically fit than their parents were at their same age, leaving them less prepared to acclimate to a hotter, more extreme climate as they age, the study concluded.
All of that climate-related fallout contributes to kids not being as active, Morrison says, which threatens their lifelong health. According to a 2018included in the review, which compared kids’ activity levels across 49 countries, only 39% of children in most of those countries were getting adequate physical activity.
This kickstarts an unhealthy cycle, Morrison says, since children who aren’t in the habit of doing enough physical activity tend not to be active as adults. The consequence is that today’s children are not only “extremely unfit”—“they don’t like to move, either,” she says. Such children may not be prepared for a hotter future. Aerobically fit people are often better able to withstand hotter temperatures, because they tend to have lower resting core temperatures and the ability to sweat more efficiently, says Morrison. Because fitter people tend to have better circulation, their hearts don’t need to work as hard to move their blood around to cool them down.
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