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. . SPORTS MEDICINE : MEDICAL: CONDITONS: OBESITY : CHILDREN : PHYSICAL EXERCISE AND FITNESS: 'Focus on Fitness Not Fatness' . . 'Focus on Fitness Not Fatness' By Dr Gavin Sandercock A children's fitness expert from the University of Essex 10 February 2015 Last updated at 02:03 ET BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31118639 . . But public health's continual focus on food and obesity leaves the more harmful effects of inactivity overlooked and ignores the role of physical fitness in health promotion and monitoring. . Despite its absence from the title, "obesity" was mentioned 193 times in the 150-minute parliamentary select committee on The Role of Diet and Physical Activity in Health. . Dietary advice changes almost continually: eat less fat, ban junk food, tax fizzy-pop. . The Local Government Association has proposed a tax on "unhealthy" foods to enable local authorities to help overweight and obese children. . But are we missing the point? . Fitness not fatness . snip . Figures from the Physical Activity Statistics 2015 - British Heart Foundation (BHF) published this January show less than a fifth of children say they move enough - a figure that's still falling. . Shockingly, the BHF's own direct assessment of activity, using accelerometers, showed that none of the 11- to 15-year-old girls and only 7% of boys they measured actually did enough exercise. . All children and young people should engage in moderate-to-vigorous intensity physical activity for at least 60 minutes a day. . But I think a better approach would be to measure fitness. . Changes in activity levels often fail to have a big impact on body mass index (BMI). But it is very rare that anyone who becomes more active, for example by walking to school or work, or training for a fun-run, does not become and feel much physically fitter. . I routinely test the fitness of elite sports people, the public, cardiac patients and entire schools. Our research in schools shows decline in children's fitness. . . The complete article may be read at the URL above. . . Links 29 January 2015 Last updated at 19:04 ET Child obesity rates 'levelling off' among under-10s BBC News http://www.bbc.com/news/health-31041864 . The impact of physical activity and diet on health http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/ commons-select/health-committee/inquiries/parliament-2010/ physical-activity-and-diet/ OR http://tinyurl.com/o7dgjxb . Local Government Association http://www.local.gov.uk/documents/10180/6341755/ 100+Days+Obesity+publication/b650d6cb-289b-4f8c-a823-3c10380d75ff OR http://tinyurl.com/kofe7pd . . The complete article may be read at the URL above. . . 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