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New recommendations from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology state that physicians should promote physical activity to children, but not before checking whether the child has underlying medical conditions or is sedentary.
Researchers maintain that children should exercise for at least 60 minutes, 3 times a week. The new guidelines advise checking for previous medical conditions in order to prevent negative effects, for for example, cardiac arrest due to an unrecognized cardiac condition.
Original research paper published in Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism on August 19, 2014.
