Want your children to perform better at school and be happier? Then get them out on the playing field

January 3rd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

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Last updated at 10:04 PM on 2nd January 2012

Physical activity can improve academic achievement in children and teenagers (picture posed by models)

Schoolchildren may be able to boost their classroom performance by getting out on the playing field, a study suggests.

A review of previous research found evidence that physical activity can improve academic achievement in children and teenagers.

Scientists in the Netherlands pooled data from 14 studies with sample sizes ranging from 53 to 12,000 participants aged between six and 18.

The authors, led by Dr Amika Singh,
from Vrije University Medical Centre in Amsterdam, wrote in the journal
Archives of Paediatrics Adolescent Medicine: ‘According to the
best-evidence synthesis, we found strong evidence of a significant
positive relationship between physical activity and academic
performance.

‘The findings
of one high-quality intervention study and one high-quality
observational study suggest that being more physically active is
positively related to improved academic performance in children.’

Exercise may help mental faculties by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain, reducing stress and improving mood, said the researchers.

Physical activity could also boost levels of growth factors that help generate new nerve cells and assist the ‘rewiring’ of neurons.

Exercise may help mental faculties by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain, reducing stress and improving mood

Exercise may help mental faculties by increasing blood and oxygen flow to the brain, reducing stress and improving mood (picture posed by models)

The researchers added: ‘Relatively few studies of high methodological quality have explored the relationship between physical activity and academic performance.

‘More high-quality studies are needed on the dose-response relationship between physical activity and academic performance and on the explanatory mechanisms, using reliable and valid measurement instruments to assess this relationship accurately.’

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If you want your kids to do well at school and all school activities, make sure they are born a few days before the start of the new school year, as if they are born a few days after the new term, they will not be able to start school until the new year and in fact be the same age . but a year behind.

– mick blair, thailand, 03/1/2012 03:21

My lad has been involved in football throughout his childhood and still going strong well into his teens, it gives him purpose and something real to be part of, he has made many friends and been to many social events over the years, I believe it has kept him from hanging about on street corners with other youth his age or got into trouble and has given him some pride within himself and enabled him to accept defeats better and move on. He has also done well at school!! Sport is good, sport clubs are very good!!!

– More sport!!, England, 03/1/2012 03:11

Nice article. I know some of these things seem obvious but we tend to ignore them in our daily grind. Out in the park over the weekend little son 🙂

– Raj, London, UK, 03/1/2012 02:01

Great study and results. At my son’s school he has female teachers whose idea of PE is to stay indoors and do extra classwork. Until teachers in primary schools actually make time for proper PE then your on a loser. Luckily my son (aged 9) loves sport and takes part in out of school activities that stimulate him physically – and mentally.
Bring back formal PE lessons!

– Tom, London, England, 03/1/2012 01:03

On the whole, I have noticed that those who are enthusiastic about taking part in sports or physical activities are usually those who are enthusiastic about other aspects of their lives, such as academic studies etc. So which is it? Sports activity improves attitude or attitude affects sports activity? Looking at the world of athletics, for example, those who are good at athletics are also good at academic studies. It also takes a fair amount of intelligence to succeed at team-sports (for the most part) to be able to “read” the game and react quickly. There are exceptions to this of course as there are to ANY rule. Nothing new in this research.

– Cooper, cambridge, 03/1/2012 00:26

May, Leicester. I didn’t like sports at school. I’m not a team person. I don’t like to be that organised. HOWEVER, after school finished, I found stuff that I did like, stuff that could be done without having to gather an entire team together at the same time, stuff that could be done when you felt like it and not at a certain time: walking, swimming, skating, cycling, the gym. Stuff like that. I’m sure there’s something you would like. It’s just that you’ve not found it yet.

– Jones, Germany, 02/1/2012 23:25

What playing fields?

– Carsten, Bradford, 02/1/2012 22:45

Where are they going to play these sports when schools have sold off playing fields and parks don’t allow games ( especially on the grass ! ) ?

– james, puerto del rosario, canary islands, 02/1/2012 22:36

I hope nobody actually paid for this ‘research’. This was known and practiced when I was growing up in the 1950s. Talk about stating the bl**ding obvious.

– William, Ferndown, Dorset, UK, 02/1/2012 22:29

If my parents were to force me into sports, I would be infuriated through my hate of them, I dont think all children would enjoy sports or atheletics..

– May, Leicester, 02/1/2012 21:37

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