The child that goes to school on foot is more not easy and fat

On October 26, 2009, belgian student is going on the road that the school attends class. (Wu Wei of reporter of Xinhua News Agency is photographed)

A when electric England published London of Xinhua News Agency 20 days on May 20 new research says, compare with the child look that takes a car to go to school, adipose content is lower in the child body that walk or goes to school by bike, more not easy and fat.

The orgnaization researcher such as Cantabrigian university is in new first phase " records of BMC communal sanitation " on the report says, they analysed London the circumstance of many 2000 pupil, these child ages arrive 11 years old in 5 years old between, color of skin each different. Researcher investigated the traffic pattern that they go to school at ordinary times, detected the muscle in their body and adipose content.

The result shows, compare with the child look that takes illicit home car or public traffic tool, walk, the adipose content in the child body that goes to school with pedal slide car by bicycle is lower, more appear not easily overweight and fat problem.

Rich of orchid heart · uses Cantabrigian college researcher say, a few research are commonly used in the past body quality index will judge fat tendency, but the weight with the computational means general support of this index, cannot distinguish weight comes from muscle still is adipose, the person with cause growth of a few muscle nicer also is decided to be fat. This second research labor the muscle in the body mixes children adipose content, is more accurate.

Researcher expresses, let children going to school vivid momentum adds in such daily behavior, conduce to should increasingly serious to be in a lot of places children is fat problem.