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  1. How physical fitness spurs school success.  Children who are physically fit absorb and retain new information more effectively than children who are out of shape, a new study finds.
Physical activity helps young people to pay attention in school and at home, with salutary effects on academic performance. A representative study, presented in May at American College of Sports Medicine, found that fourth and fifth grade students who ran around and otherwise exercised vigorously for at lest 10 minutes before a maths test scored higher than children who had sat quietly before the exam. In another large scale study published in The Journal of Pediatrics, a researcher compiled each student’s physical fitness, as measured by a timed run, body mass index and academic achievement in English and maths. Better physical fitness proved to be linked to significantly higher achievement scores. 

Related articles:
1. Health-related fitness and academic achievement in middle school students.
Coe DP, Pivarnik JM, Womack CJ, Reeves MJ, Malina RM.:J Sports Med Phys Fitness. 2012 Dec;52(6):654-60

This study found that the health related fitness was related to academic achievement in youth. Students with the highest fitness level performed better on standardized tests and
students with the lowest fitness level performed lower in class grades.

2. Physical fitness and academic performance in middle school students.
This study concluded that aerobic capacity and muscular endurance positively affect academic achievement in middle school students.
3. Need to screen the school adolescents for overweight/obesity and hypertension:
Adolescence is the period of psychological and social transition from childhood to adulthood. It is important that teenagers be screened for adequacy of nutritional and health status. Although the prevalence of hypertension during childhood is lower than that seen in adulthood, this condition is not rare in adolescent, thus stressing the importance of evaluating BP. Read more.
4. Younger age of escalation of cardiovascular risk factors in Asian Indian subjects.
Rajeev Gupta, Anoop Misra, Naval K Vikram, Dimple Kondal, Shaon Sen Gupta, Aachu Agrawal, and  RM Pandey: BMC Cardiovasc Disord. 2009; 9: 28. 1186/1471-2261-9-28
This study was conducted in North India in 1999–2002.  The study concluded that there was low prevalence of multiple cardiovascular risk factors (smoking, hypertension, dyslipidemias, diabetes and metabolic syndrome) in adolescents, however,  a rapid escalation of these risk factors was observed by the age of 30–39 years in urban Asian Indians. Interventions should focus on these individuals.
5. Outdoor physical activity & cardiovascular health.
S. Sivasankaran: J Med Res. Aug 2012; 136(2): 301–303.
This study concluded that amongst Indian adolescent women, two behavioural risk factors viz. unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity lay the foundation for four major non-communicable diseases, namely, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, osteoporosis and cancer. These diseases form the major reason for more than 50 per cent of morbidity and mortality in their life course. This study also stresses the need for outdoor physical activity to improve the vitamin D status. Outdoor physical activity is the best way to overcome many of these abnormalities. Exercise builds muscles and bones, buffers the insult of high calorie nutrition and is the key for healthy ageing. No wonder, atherosclerosis is not a natural disease of animals, they remain physically active, indulge in natural foods and do not cover their body from the sun.

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