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A study by the University of Copenhagen showed that children actually got more exercise while playing freely outdoors than when they participated in organized sports. Glen Nielsen, a sports researcher who led the study, put accelerometers on five hundred children in Denmark and five hundred children in New Zealand, then tracked their activity over three days. Unexpectedly, he found that the children got most of their exercise at recess or recreation centers, or from simply playing in the neighborhood, while organized sports made only a small contribution to the overall level of activity.
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Linda McGurk
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There’s No Such Thing As Bad Weather
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Jeff Johnson is an early learning trainer, podcaster, and author who founded Explorations Early Learning, Playvolution HQ, and Play Haven.
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