A study led by Kristen Copeland, MD, division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Faculty Scholar reveals that, many of the three quarters of preschool-age children in the U.S. who attend child care get insufficient outdoor physical activity...K-rap.
Copeland said:
"Given that childhood obesity is a national epidemic and a major cause of childhood morbidity, and that time in child care may be the child's only opportunity for outdoor play, licensing standards may need to explicitly promote physical activity in as much detail as is devoted to safety.
An important message from this study is that well-intentioned policies may have unintended consequences for preschool-age children's physical development.
Daily physical activity is essential for preschool-age children's development and for preventing obesity, yet parents' and teachers' concerns about injury and school-readiness may be keeping children from being physically active. In essence, in ensuring that young children are smart and safe, we may also be keeping them sedentary."
All overweight/obesity at any age is caused by more Calories in than out.
If you want to get more Calories out, then increased activity is the way.
Outdoors or indoors matters not.
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