One, two, three, go! Or not. A few days before the start of the new school year, 12 million pupils buy their satchel or bag and carefully prepare their school supplies. But are they so careful with their “sports business”!
Not really. In the field of sports practices, recalls the site ofEurope1, France is a bad student. It is even second to last among OECD countries. 80% of young French people do less than one hour of physical activity per day, the minimum threshold recommended by the WHO.
Outside of school time and at night, 7 out of 10 teenagers (15-17 years old) spend at least 4 hours a day sitting or lying down, confirms a study by ANSES.
Half of this sedentary time is devoted to screens of all kinds. According to the agency, children aged 3 to 17 spend 20 minutes more there than eight years ago.
Result: in 1971, a college student took an average of three minutes to run 800 meters. Today, according to the work of an Australian researcher, it takes four, a decrease of 25% in 40 years. And when the line of children’s physical abilities goes down, it crosses that of overweight and obesity, which continues to climb!
(1) National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety
