Physical activity intervention at schools can help prevent childhood obesity: Study
A new Slovenian population-scaled, school-based study shows that by providing additional physical education lessons to young children is effective in preventing childhood obesity, according to findings published in Obesity journal.
The present study leverages a natural experiment that provided the opportunity to examine the effectiveness of Healthy Lifestyle, a real-world, population-based, longitudinal physical activity intervention on body mass index (BMI) in children aged 6-to-14 years.
Between 2011–2018, Healthy Lifestyle was a nationwide intervention introduced in 216 Slovenian schools with more than 34,000 participants compared with the same number of schools and non-participants. Generalized estimating equations were used to estimate the effects of differing levels of exposure to the intervention (i.e., from 1-5 years) on BMI in children with normal weight, overweight or obesity at baseline.
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