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Play is Good For Children (Really!)
September 8, 2006
Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.
-Mary Oliver
-Mary Oliver
Anderson and colleagues analyzed data from 1,732 nine- and15-year-old children in three European countries, after monitoring them for four consecutive days. They used a small machine attached to the children's hips that recorded accelerations in bodily movements.
The benefits of physical activity were consistent. The more "active children had healthier numbers for blood pressure, cholesterol, and insulin. The study found that the benefits of physical activity applied to all children" (Cheng, 2006), not just those overweight and thought to be at higher risk.
This seems to prove that outdoor play has benefits beyond maintaining teachers' mental health, and may lead to a reconsideration of physical activity guidelines.
Maria Cheng's brief summary of this study is available by CLICKING HERE
For the full article, see:
Andersen, L. B., Harro, M., Sardinha, L. B., Froberg, K., Ekelund, U., Brage, S., Anderssen, S. A. (22 July 2006). "Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a cross-sectional study" (The European Youth Heart Study). The Lancet, 368 (9532): 299-304.
Contributed by Michael Kalinowski
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Displaying All 4 CommentsEducation
Gambia, Kanifing estate c87, United States
Th Gambia has no zip that do i do to contribute to this program.
Education
Kanifing estate c 87, town, United States
Play helps children to develop holisticaly that is mentally, socially, physically and Emotionally. Children learn through play, children communicate through play, they interact through play,they also get friends through play. Play is everything for children.
Sandy's School Daze
Nashville, TN, United States
I have owned and operated Sandy's School Daze for 27 years - an afterschool program that I operate in my home, serving 15 schoolagers. Three to four times a week we stay and play on the two playgrounds at the two schools that I serve. I am a firm believer in physical activity, which is naturally facilitated by allowing children to play outside. The sad thing is that both schools have on-site YMCA Fun Companies (afterschool programs) and we have never seen them come outside to play the 45 minutes that we stay to play. That is not to say that they don't go outside. But I see parents picking their children up, who have not had an opportunity to play outside. And who probably don't go home and play outside either. Sadly, playing actively outside after school is no longer a part of our children in America's culture.
Johnson & Wales University
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
So that's why we played "Kick the Can",
Freeze Tag, Jump Rope, Soccer Baseball,
Four Square (or Square Ball) depending on where you lived!
"Duck Duck Goose Anyone?"
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