why are children of the present generation called couch potatoes
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Childhoods dominated by computer games, TV and Facebook have resulted in a generation of ten-year-old weaklings, research suggests.
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Modern primary school children are less fit and less muscular than they were a decade ago, leaving them unable to carry out simple physical exercises that youngsters once took in their stride.
Today’s ten-year-olds can do fewer sit-ups than children managed in the late 1990s, and are less able to hang from wall bars in a school gym. Their arms are weaker and their ability to grip objects tightly has declined, researchers say.
Modern family life: But experts say constant playing of computer games and use of social networks have enfeebled youngsters. Picture posed by models
The findings, based on a study of more than 300 Essex primary school children, highlight the damage that a couch potato lifestyle is having on young people.
Experts say computer games and social networking have replaced outdoor play, den-making and tree-climbing for millions of children.
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Over-anxious parenting, where children are not allowed out of sight for fear of traffic dangers and paedophiles, has also contributed to the decline in children’s fitness.
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Dr Gavin Sandercock, a child fitness expert at Essex University, told The Observer: ‘This is probably due to changes in activity patterns among English ten-year-olds, such as taking part in fewer activities like rope-climbing and tree-climbing.
‘Typically, these activities boosted children’s strengths, making them able to lift and hold their own body weight.’
The study, published in the child health journal Acta Paediatrica, compared the physical fitness of 315 ten-year-olds in 2008 with 309 children of the same age tested in 1998.
Five per cent of children were unable to hold their own weight when hanging from a bar in 1998. Ten years later, that figure had doubled to 10 per cent.
Over the same period the arm strength of children fell by 26 per cent, while their grip strength declined by 7 per cent.
The number of sit-ups fell by 27 per cent over the decade.
However, Dr Sandercock found that the average body mass index for ten-year-olds – the measure of obesity that takes into account someone’s weight and height – stayed the same between 1998 and 2008.
That means the children’s bodies are likely to contain less muscle and more fat.
Two years ago Dr Sandercock showed that fitness levels in British children were falling faster than anywhere else in the world.
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Tam Fry, of the Child Growth Foundation, said: ‘We are short-changing children by not giving them enough physical exercise in schools.
‘They are supposed to get two hours a week at school when they actually need one hour every day.’
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Modern primary school children are less fit and less muscular than they were a decade ago, leaving them unable to carry out simple physical exercises that youngsters once took in their stride.
Today’s ten-year-olds can do fewer sit-ups than children managed in the late 1990s, and are less able to hang from wall bars in a school gym. Their arms are weaker and their ability to grip objects tightly has declined, researchers say.
Modern family life: But experts say constant playing of computer games and use of social networks have enfeebled youngsters. Picture posed by models
The findings, based on a study of more than 300 Essex primary school children, highlight the damage that a couch potato lifestyle is having on young people.
Experts say computer games and social networking have replaced outdoor play, den-making and tree-climbing for millions of children.
Share this article
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Playing computer games increases obesity risk in teens by making them hungry
'He refused to give up': Boy, 10, with two false legs becomes his school's star football player
Middle-aged and worried about having a heart attack? A jogging test could reveal your risk
Over-anxious parenting, where children are not allowed out of sight for fear of traffic dangers and paedophiles, has also contributed to the decline in children’s fitness.
Boys climbing trees on Wimbledon Common: These days children's only adventures are in video games
Dr Gavin Sandercock, a child fitness expert at Essex University, told The Observer: ‘This is probably due to changes in activity patterns among English ten-year-olds, such as taking part in fewer activities like rope-climbing and tree-climbing.
‘Typically, these activities boosted children’s strengths, making them able to lift and hold their own body weight.’
The study, published in the child health journal Acta Paediatrica, compared the physical fitness of 315 ten-year-olds in 2008 with 309 children of the same age tested in 1998.
Five per cent of children were unable to hold their own weight when hanging from a bar in 1998. Ten years later, that figure had doubled to 10 per cent.
Over the same period the arm strength of children fell by 26 per cent, while their grip strength declined by 7 per cent.
The number of sit-ups fell by 27 per cent over the decade.
However, Dr Sandercock found that the average body mass index for ten-year-olds – the measure of obesity that takes into account someone’s weight and height – stayed the same between 1998 and 2008.
That means the children’s bodies are likely to contain less muscle and more fat.
Two years ago Dr Sandercock showed that fitness levels in British children were falling faster than anywhere else in the world.
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Tam Fry, of the Child Growth Foundation, said: ‘We are short-changing children by not giving them enough physical exercise in schools.
‘They are supposed to get two hours a week at school when they actually need one hour every day.’
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Nine out of 10 schoolchildren are not doing enough exercise to ensure that they grow into healthy adults, according to a major new study.
Only 10 per cent of young people get the one hour a day of physical activity that ministers, health experts and scientists say is necessary.
The findings have sparked new fears that many young Britons are turning into 'couch potatoes' whose sedentary lifestyles mean they are much more likely to become obese in later life and suffer a whole range of diseases. They underline how age-old habits such as playing football in the street have been replaced by indoor pursuits involving computers and televisions.
When researchers monitored activity levels among 4,500 11-year-old pupils in the Bristol area using sophisticated motion sensors called 'accelerometers', they found that some did no exercise at all, only a few did the recommended daily hour, and most did some but not enough.
A GENERATION of British children are locking themselves away in their bedrooms where they are increasingly turning to television and computer games as their sole sources of entertainment, an extraordinary new survey has found.
The indoor migration - away from traditional outdoor games - has largely been prompted by parental fears about safety.Busy parents unable to spend as much time as they wish with their children - or to guarantee their safety if they are not with them - consider computers and television an easy option. According to the report by the London School of Economics, many children also feel they have no alternative source of entertainment outside their bedroom walls.
"Children prefer to get out," said Dr Sonia Livingstone, a co-author of the report, Young People, New Media, "but the lack of alternatives makes the media-rich environment most of them can enjoy in the home today more important."
Only 10 per cent of young people get the one hour a day of physical activity that ministers, health experts and scientists say is necessary.
The findings have sparked new fears that many young Britons are turning into 'couch potatoes' whose sedentary lifestyles mean they are much more likely to become obese in later life and suffer a whole range of diseases. They underline how age-old habits such as playing football in the street have been replaced by indoor pursuits involving computers and televisions.
When researchers monitored activity levels among 4,500 11-year-old pupils in the Bristol area using sophisticated motion sensors called 'accelerometers', they found that some did no exercise at all, only a few did the recommended daily hour, and most did some but not enough.
A GENERATION of British children are locking themselves away in their bedrooms where they are increasingly turning to television and computer games as their sole sources of entertainment, an extraordinary new survey has found.
The indoor migration - away from traditional outdoor games - has largely been prompted by parental fears about safety.Busy parents unable to spend as much time as they wish with their children - or to guarantee their safety if they are not with them - consider computers and television an easy option. According to the report by the London School of Economics, many children also feel they have no alternative source of entertainment outside their bedroom walls.
"Children prefer to get out," said Dr Sonia Livingstone, a co-author of the report, Young People, New Media, "but the lack of alternatives makes the media-rich environment most of them can enjoy in the home today more important."
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