Kids Today: 'Less Active Than Before' and Declining in Heart Health

The cardiovascular health of kids across the globe has fallen, according to research presented Tuesday at a meeting of the American Heart Association.

Today’s kids are running more slowly and with less endurance than their parents did, the researchers found.

Based on an analysis of data covering 1964 to 2010, the study found that kids now are about 15 percent less heart healthy than their parents were as youngsters. In the U.S., the study found that from 1970 to  2000 kids’ cardiovascular endurance fell an average of 6 percent per decade.

And this doesn’t bode well for the young generation, stated Grant Tomkinson, Ph.D., lead author of the study and senior lecturer in the University of South Australia’s School of Health Sciences, because “The most important type of fitness for good health is cardiovascular fitness.”

“If a young person is generally unfit now, then they are more likely to develop conditions like heart disease later in life,” Tomkinson stated.

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