Body Mass Index Does Not Improve When Practicing School-Based Physical Activity

Who could have seen this coming? Fitness Watch readers, of course.

"Dr. Kevin Harris, BC Children's Hospital and his team write: 'Although the physical activity interventions in the studies we analyzed were not successful in improving BMI, the underlying reasons for failure were unclear.' They point out that BMI did not improve because the amount of physical activity may have been insufficient or because other causal factors may have a more important effect on BMI."

Wonder what those "other causal factors (that) may have a more important effect on BMI" might be?

Try parents, doctors, nurses, teachers and principals, for starters.

If you can tolerate the medical-ese, read the complete article found here.

It is arguably an exercise in self-contradiction, speculation and excusination as the authors scramble to find benefits to programs which they outright claim and clearly demonstrate do not work.