Journal of Pediatric Neurological Disorders

Adolescents' Diet Physical Activity

For children and adults, physical activity includes play, games, sports, transportation, chores, recreation, education, or planned exercise, within the context of family, school, and community activities. Physical activity has also been related to psychological benefits in children by improving their control over symptoms of hysteria and depression. Similarly, participation in physical activity can assist within the social development of children by providing opportunities for self-expression, building self-confidence, social interaction and integration. It has also been suggested that physically active children more readily adopt other healthy behaviours (e.g. avoidance of tobacco, alcohol and drug use) and demonstrate higher academic performance at college. For inactive children and youth, a progressive increase in activity to eventually achieve the target shown above is suggested. It is appropriate to start with smaller amounts of physical activity and gradually increases duration, frequency and intensity over time. It should even be noted that if children are currently doing no physical activity, doing amounts below the recommended levels will bring more benefits than doing none in the least. The perception of accumulation refers to meeting the goal of hour per day by performing activities in multiple shorter bouts spread throughout the day, then adding together the time spent during each of those bouts.    

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