Here in Fatville we have very few pleasant memories of PE lessons at school. Tripping over hockey sticks in an arctic mud-laden field wearing our less-than-flattering PE knickers did not overly enamor us of sports.
Thank god some boffins at the University of Essex have finally proven that letting kids have FUN is the key to fighting obesity amongst the young’uns!
The study (reported in the Telegraph) showed that encouraging children to play with hula hoops, skipping ropes and frisbees as well as introducing children to orienteering in green spaces is helping them to win the battle of the bulge.
This certainly fits with our own research that demonstrated the power of play versus the joy-sapping ‘exercise’ we’re so often prescribed…
We think the grown-ups in Fatville might benefit from a bit of the same medicine …You’re never to old to get hula-hooping afterall….
