Facts Concerning Children’s Health And Fitness

Children’s health and fitness in Australia today is a challenge that has to be faced. The facts are before us. We are facing an escalating problem which will have very long term effects on our nation.

A concerted form of action is rapidly required to ensure that Australia’s children will not suffer the long term effects of overweight and obesity.

Government has recognized the problem for child obesity and to focus on this problem, the NSW Government has produced the prevention of Obesity in children and young people Action Plan 2003 – 2007.

The children’s health issues which come to immediate attention and which have been given considerable publicity by the Government are concerns of obesity becoming a major problem in Australia’s population
The high incidence of diabetes and asthma in our population with early onset being apparent in school age children.
The problems of attention deficit syndrome.
The current tendency for children to become viewers not participants in sport.
The high daily use of computers, TV games and mobile phones which affects the activity of children from an early age and the long term effects of which have yet to be clearly classified.

Over the past 20 years there has been both a decline in physical activity in children and an increase in unhealthy eating. Therefore an approach is needed which creates living environments that support healthy eating and physical activity as well as encouraging young people and their families to adopt healthier lifestyles.
Children need to be involved in something attractive, interesting “cool’ and energetic.
The activity needs to be approximately 3 hours per week – not too time consuming.
There needs to be a system in place which operates to encourage, record and reward progress.

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