Cardiovascular Benefits Of Daily Exercise In School Children Are Evident Even After One Year
Friday, May 8, 2009 - 05:28
in Health & Medicine
School children as young as 11 can benefit from a daily exercise program in reducing their levels of several known risk factors for cardiovascular disease. An ongoing study, which began four years ago in the German city of Leipzig, shows already that children assigned to daily exercise lessons reduced their overall prevalence of obesity, improved their exercise capacity, increased their levels of HDL-cholesterol, and reduced their systolic blood pressure.
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