Sport Is Unrelated To Obesity In Children

The UK government is planning to stop funding a study to understand obesity in children. The study fits children with accelerometers to measure how much energy each child uses in a day by moving. The results are surprising. Those children who do sports at school do not burn more calories than those who don’t. Furthermore there is no correlation between body mass index and the number of calories used!

Now that’s an interesting statement, and a difficult one to understand. I look forward to seeing what the “International Obesity Task Force” finds out as time passes. Yes, that’s really what the group calls themselves.

Source: Slashdot