{"id":37223,"date":"2016-01-14T12:23:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=37223"},"modified":"2017-01-06T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T19:31:24","slug":"podcast-supporting-children-and-youth-to-be-more-active-and-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2016\/01\/podcast-supporting-children-and-youth-to-be-more-active-and-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"PODCAST: Supporting children and youth to be more active and healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressing buttons on various devises and getting to the \u201cnext level\u201d of video games is the new hide-and-go-seek.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers and parents are among those who note a considerable decline in children\u2019s physical activity, especially spontaneous play outdoors. For a number of different reasons, the playground has gone virtual in the great indoors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN TO THE CONSIDER THIS PODCAST ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HERE:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/241760464&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The numbers bear this out. Today\u2019s children watch an average of at least three hours of television a day. Only 20 per cent meet the minimum daily requirement of 60 minutes of physical activity a day and less than 20 per cent walk to and from school, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/health\/statistics\/indicators\/images\/infographic-obesity.jpg\">reports a Niagara Region infograph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The potential health impacts are staggering. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/health\/statistics\/indicators\/childhood-obesity.aspx\">Niagara Region reports that one in three children in Niagara are obese or overweight<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that worries exercise physiologist Bareket Falk. She says it is critical for children and youth to be physically active \u2013 run, jump, walk, play sports, etc. \u2013 for their long-term body strength, particularly for their bones.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, youth is the time to put \u201cmore bone in the bank\u201d to increase peak bone mass in adulthood, which potentially can delay or even prevent osteoporosis in old age, she says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only time that we can add bone, that we can increase and enhance our bone mass and strength is during youth,\u201d she say. \u201cThe best and most way to do it is using exercise and physical activity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But getting physically active doesn\u2019t have to be costly or complicated, says youth worker Erin McBride.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s getting outside, it\u2019s getting to a community centre, walking on a track, skating, swimming; just taking advantage of whatever interests youth,\u201d she says, adding that the activities \u201chave to be fun for kids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFind opportunities to be active as a family,\u201d she advises. \u201cI think we underestimate how much our children look up to us as role models and how much they will imitate the behaviours they see through their parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McBride and Falk discuss these and other issues in the podcast Supporting children and youth to be more active and healthy. Dr. Bareket Falk is professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University and editor of the journal Pediatric Exercise Science. Erin McBride is general manager, Youth Outreach and Day Camp, YMCA of Niagara.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Consider This podcast series is produced in partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niagaraconnects.ca\/\">Niagara Connects<\/a>, a Niagara-wide network of people for collaboration, planning, learning, innovation and community action.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH\u00a0THE CONSIDER THIS PODCAST ON PHYSICAL ACTIVITY HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"flexvideo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PmdgtxWpWc8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressing buttons on various devises and getting to the \u201cnext level\u201d of video games is the new hide-and-go-seek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":37226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3319,1],"tags":[3712,2420,894,1131],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37223"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37225,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37223\/revisions\/37225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}