Daylight saving time will make children fat

Daylight saving time a negative impact on children's physical activity, which increases the risk of excess weight and obesity. This is the conclusion of experts from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Daylight saving time

Just one day Russia will move to winter time   moving the clock back one hour. As a result, the dark will be performing at hour before, and therefore, children would be less time for the physical activity. Meanwhile, the bright evening prolong periods children's activities, an average of two minutes, as the researchers found.

Daylight saving time

Although this time does not seem too large, it is essential. A group of children were asked to wear accelerometers that track their activity and the amount of movement of each day. The researchers compared the 23 thousand children from 2 to 16 years in England, Australia, United States of America, Norway, Denmark, Estonia, Switzerland, Brazil and Portuguese island of Madeira.

The study has helped to compare length of daylight and activity level. The result showed that the average activity of children grew by 15-20% in the bright days when the sun sinking later, and in the dark days, on the contrary, reduced. This is particularly evident was evident in Europe and Australia, even after other factors such as temperature and weather conditions are taken into account.

Note that opponents daylight saving time in Russia just cited as an argument the fact that children do not time to walk after returning from school, on the street it's getting dark. In this way, they have most of their time indoors, which negatively It affects their physical activity. Supporters of the transition to winter time They claimed that after the clock transferred back one hour, children will to go to school at dawn, but not at night. (READ MORE)

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