Child fitness levels 'declining even in affluent areas'

Yep.

"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.
They found significant falls in fitness levels, concluding the average 10-year-old in 1998 could beat 95% of youngsters in 2008 in running tests.

The researchers said the focus on obesity was obscuring the health risks of wider declines in fitness levels."

There are two main types of fitness - nutritional fitness and physical fitness.

Here the kids are not physically fit, but we do not know if any were nutritionally fit, i.e., not OVERWEIGHT.

We just know that some were not obese.

Still, a sad state of affairs.