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Sport Is Unrelated To Obesity In Children

Posted by kdawson on from the who-you-callin-fat dept.

xiox writes "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."

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  1. Re:Everyone knows by porkchop_d_clown · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me make sure I understand this. Your evidence that sports make you lose weight is that you weighed less when you were 17 than you did when you were 22.

    I hope you aren't an engineer.

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  2. Re:Nobody RTFA! by 10Ghz · · Score: 5, Funny

    "But fat children also tend to be more muscular than thin ones."

    Also, they have bigger bones.

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