Clumsy Children (poor hand control, coordination) & Obesity.

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Clumsy children more likely to become obese as adults, study finds

 

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Last updated at 11:16 AM on 14th August 2008

 

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Obesity in adulthood has been linked to poor co-ordination as a child

Clumsy children are more likely to be obese in later life because they exercise

less, research says.

A study that started 50 years ago found youngsters with poor hand control and

co-ordination are far more prone to piling on the pounds during adulthood.

This puts them at higher risk of heart attack, stroke and diabetes.

The findings, published online by the British Medical Journal, found children

who performed worse in tests assessing their cognitive and physical function

were more likely to be obese by the age of 33.

Those who were obese were 57 per cent more likely to have suffered poor hand

control aged seven, more than twice as likely to have suffered poor

co-ordination and almost four times as likely to have been clumsy.

 

The study adds to evidence of a link between poorer cognitive function in

childhood and obesity and Type 2 diabetes in adulthood.

Researchers said cognitive impairment in obese adults was assumed to be a

consequence of obesity.

 

However, the study indicates obese adults and those with Type 2 diabetes may

already have had lower levels of cognitive function in childhood 'consistent

with a subtle developmental impairment'.

The research, whose authors are from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and

Imperial College, London, is based on 11,042 people taking part in the ongoing

National Child Development Study in Great Britain, which began in 1958.

 

 

 

 

 

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Well, duh! So these " scientists have found that kids who don't enjoy sport - and

so don't get into the habit of exercise - are more likely to be fat. What next?

A research grant to show that swimming in water gets you wet?

- Alex, Southampton, UK, 13/8/2008 09:53

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's a good reason for the correlation - I wonder if the scientists also

tested for joint hypermobility syndrom at the same time. Odds were that a large

% of these children had " joint hypermobility syndrome " .

 

If children were encouraged to do more varied activities: dance/swimming/fencing

which are more suited to their bodies rather than wretched football, netball or

tennis they would be encouraged to be more active. Who in their right mind wants

to participate in an activity at which they fail miserably and which the other

kids tease them about without shame just because they can't run/hold a tennis

raquet. I speak from first hand experience and also that of my own children, one

of whom was seen at Great Ormond Street. Failure at sports due to being

physically incapable has left me with a life long aversion to organised " sport "

- more like organised torture.

- Joanne, Witham, Essex, 13/8/2008 09:42

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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