Diabetes in Overweight Children
In August, Davis will begin charting and
testing 240 overweight third graders. For four months, one group will
do 40 minutes of aerobic exercise daily, a second group will do 20 minutes
of aerobic exercise, and a third group will not take part in the exercise.
She plans to continue with different groups of children for three years,
measuring the children's body composition and glucose tolerance before
and after the exercise program.
Although high-fat diets probably contribute
to the problem of overweight and diabetic kids, Davis says, a sedentary
lifestyle may have more to do with it. People ate high-fat diets 100 years
ago, she notes, but they had active lifestyles. Kids today sit in front
of televisions and computers, rarely walk anywhere, and have fewer physical
education classes at schools because of funding cutbacks.
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in Overweight Kids
Source: www.healthdaynews.com 2003
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