According to a study supported by the Ministry of Sports and conducted by the collective “For a France in shape”, college students are in worse physical condition than 30 years ago. If the results are considered alarming by the research team, they are nevertheless reversible.
The study was conducted on 9,000 middle school students in 6ᵉ class. To test their physical capacity, the students all had to run for 20 meters, gradually increasing their pace.
” Overweight, obesity… »
The results obtained were then compared with those of a study dating from 1987. The maximum speed, before was around 11 km/h, now it is 10 km/h, details François Carré, cardiologist and sports doctor, who led the study. This means that our children are less healthy. And we can see that since we now have more and more children who are overweight, even obese, diseases in children that only existed in adults, the blood pressure of our college students is higher than the blood pressure of college students 15 years ago; cholesterol levels too. The leading cause of cardiac arrest before the age of 30 is myocardial infarction. So, I say that our 15-year-old college students are preparing for their heart attack at 30 ”.
move better
Good news, it is possible to effectively stop the phenoled. The only condition is to move better. “ By putting intense split-type work, that is to say where you are relatively out of breath, 15 minutes in each class, you have a beneficial effect. And when they do it in class, I think they might do it at home too. “, believes François Carré.
Doctors also recommend 30 minutes of daily physical activity from primary school.
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