The average 8 to 18 year-old spends 3 hours or more per day on average in front of a screen doing very little to no physical activity.
<h3>How does screen time affect children’s physical activity?</h3>
Regular exercise reduces the risk of obesity and diseases in children and adolescence.
However, due to recent advances in technology and the advent of mobile phones, TVs, laptops, children spend most of their time on-screen remaining physically inactive.
Researchers have identified a relationship between low levels of physical activity and high screen time especially among children aged 10-16 years.
Children spending massive amounts of time on media have reduced physical activity, thus increased obesity and diseases.
Spending more time on-screen results in behavioralproblems, psychological issues, attention problems and affects physical health.
Parents need to set limits to their children for using phones and encourage them to eat healthy and remain physically active.
A warm up consist of a period of non-strenuous activity that slowly prepares the body for more vigorous exercise. Most warm up will gradually increase in intensity. The muscle which was used can be different for each activity. <span>Not only athlete, </span>singer can do warm up too.
