One of the measures to combat obesity is habitual physical activity. Children today have fewer opportunities to exercise, so it is important to encourage them. The Clinical Practice Guide on the prevention and treatment of childhood and adolescent obesity shows us this Pyramid of physical activity with recommendations for healthy growth in motion.
Sharing activity with the children and encouraging them to perform small exercises that become games or simple healthy habits helps them stay healthy.
In this pyramid, it is collected, as a food pyramid, the most important at the base until you reach the top, with the least recommended. Let's see what each level of the pyramid of physical activity:
At the base, every day an hour or more of: walking, climbing stairs, walking to school, participating in household chores, walking pets, playing outdoors.
Three to five times a week, 45 minutes or more: cycling, swimming, skating, running, playing ball, skiing, team sports, physical education.
Two or three times a week, 15 minutes or more: rowing, martial arts, dancing.
Less than 1'30 hours a day: television, videos, video games, computer. Here we leave many options so that they are not all day glued to the screens.
As we see, the options to get moving and grow healthy offered by this pyramid of physical activity They are very varied. You just have to find the option that children like best and, whenever you can, enjoy with them those activities that also the adults will come in handy.
