The world’s laziest teenagers: Only 7% of children in South Korea are active for an hour a day

Youngsters in South Korea are the laziest on this planet, in accordance with a worldwide research.

A rustic-by-country breakdown of bodily exercise ranges has revealed only one in 5 11 to 17-year-olds get as a lot train as they should to remain wholesome.

In some international locations, led by South Korea and together with the Philippines, Cambodia and Sudan, greater than 90 per cent of youngsters are inactive.

Within the UK 79.9 per cent of youngsters do ‘inadequate bodily exercise’, the report stated.

In the meantime the US outperformed nearly each nation on Earth with simply 72 per cent of kids inactive – larger solely than Bangladesh, Slovakia and Eire.

Specialists stated the statistics have been ‘regarding’ and that encouraging train is important for tackling essentially the most harmful baby well being concern – weight problems.

‘Youngsters who’re extra energetic have higher well being and wellbeing and customarily do higher in class,’ stated Professor Russell Viner, president of the Royal Faculty of Paediatrics and Youngster Well being.

‘We needs to be making it simpler for kids and younger individuals to have energetic and wholesome lives.’

Researchers from the World Well being Group have produced the report which outlines worrying ranges of adolescent laziness all around the world.

It stated all youngsters between the ages of 11 and 17 ought to do a minimum of an hour of train each day, however in actuality solely round 19 per cent handle it.

Within the nation with essentially the most energetic youngsters – Bangladesh – nonetheless solely a 3rd of kids (33.9 per cent) hit that focus on, in accordance with the research of 1.6milllion youths.

Women have been much less energetic than boys in all however 4 out of 146 international locations, the WHO revealed, with solely Tonga, Samoa, Afghanistan and Zambia bucking the development.

Examine creator Dr Regina Guthold: ‘Pressing coverage motion to extend bodily exercise is required now, notably to advertise and retain ladies’ participation in bodily exercise.’

Dr Guthold and her crew stated bodily exercise was vital for growing younger individuals’s hearts, lungs, bones and muscle tissues and conserving them a wholesome weight.

Within the UK one in three youngsters are obese earlier than they end main faculty and even fewer (18 per cent) eat 5 or extra parts of fruit and greens every day.

NHS figures final month confirmed 24.6 per cent of 10 and 11-year-olds are overweight in England, whereas 34.Three per cent are obese to a point.

In accordance with its Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, the US’s childhood weight problems price is 18.5 per cent and impacts some 13.7million younger individuals.

England’s 10 and 11-year-olds are fatter than ever earlier than, damning NHS statistics revealed final month. Virtually 1 / 4 of 12 months Six youngsters are overweight or severely overweight

In a remark revealed alongside the research, within the journal The Lancet Youngster & Adolescent Well being, a Canadian researcher stated trendy society is guilty for inactivity.

Dr Mark Tremblay, from the Youngsters’s Hospital of Japanese Ontario Analysis Institute, wrote: ‘The altering world is altering individuals, with motion being one of many clearest indicators of this modification.

‘The digital revolution has essentially reworked individuals’s motion patterns by altering the place and the way they dwell, be taught, work, play, and journey, progressively isolating them indoors (eg, homes, colleges, workplaces, and automobiles), most frequently in chairs.

‘Individuals sleep much less, sit extra, stroll much less often, drive extra recurrently, and do much less bodily exercise than they used to.

‘They’re more and more transferring from one nation to a different, from rural to city areas, from open air to indoors, from standing to sitting, from strolling to driving, and from energetic play to digital play.

‘These results and the way they fluctuate spatially, temporally, or culturally are vital, notably since bodily inactivity is the fourth main danger issue for untimely loss of life worldwide, however stay poorly understood.’

The Royal Faculty of Paediatrics and Youngster Well being’s Professor Viner stated bodily inactivity was not one thing which existed alone, and goes hand in hand with weight problems.

He added: ‘[Obese children] is the group we needs to be most involved about as a result of many of those youngsters will begin to develop well being and wellbeing issues comparatively early in life.

‘Encouraging bodily exercise is a part of the answer – it wants to come back with quite a lot of empathy, assist and entry to secure and free public areas. We additionally must push the meals and drinks business to do extra.’