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© 2019 AFPGet moving! Four in five adolescents don't exercise enough: WHO
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JonathanJo
Being obese and physically inactive doesn't seem to have stopped a certain 73 yr old American male. Yet.
kohakuebisu
A quick google find suggests this study did not include Japan. The story I found has rankings but Japan is not in there.
https://headlinezpro.com/the-worlds-laziest-teenagers-only-7-of-children-in-south-korea-are-active-for-an-hour-a-day/
I reckon Japan will score very highly here. My own children and those around them do an hour a day pretty much just walking or cycling to school. They then have P.E. classes three times a week and do clubs on the top. What they don't do is unstructured stuff with friends like I used to, but I think that is a thing of the past. Unless you actively stop them, many gatherings of kids now descend into them huddling around a screen.
Strangerland
146 Countries and territories were part of the study, but for some reason (surprising to me), Japan was not included. I wonder why.
Countries (starts on page 2): https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S2352-4642(19)30323-2/attachment/055baee9-a1e0-4153-9696-975d72961a78/mmc3.pdf
Tom
Japanese kids move a lot in my area. Even the chubby ones are out there doing things.
chisineko
The human physical and mental constitution is much like a building - in the early stages of construction flawed foundations lead to problems later on. The twenty percent of kiddos will have a great advantage eventually in their lives.
kurisupisu
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