Health Site – Jahnavi Sarma
Kids now-a-days lead a sedentary lifestyle. This is especially true in urban scenarios where there is a lack of open spaces. Moreover, today’s fast-paced lifestyle hardly leaves any time for play. A child is often over-burdened by school work and may spend his or her precious free time playing video games or watching television. But this is not good for children’s health. What most parents don’t realise is that an inactive lifestyle can have an adverse effect on the health of their kid. According to a study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, there is an association between physical fitness and the brain in 9- and 10-year-old children. Those who are more fit tend to have a bigger hippocampus and perform better on a test of memory than their less-fit peers. This study appears in the journal Brain Research.