Childhood Obesity Study Losing UK Government Funding
"The UK government is planning to
stop funding a study to understand obesity in children. The study fits children with accelerometers to measure how much energy each child uses in a day by moving. The results are surprising. Those children who do sports at school do not burn more calories than those who don't. Furthermore there is no correlation between body mass index and the number of calories used! The results are very interesting, suggesting that genetics and diet are the main reasons for childhood obesity, not sport. The UK government is trying to increase the amount of sport in schools."
Childhood Obesity
I find it very hard to believe that children who play sports at school are not burning more calories than those who don't.
