{"id":2798,"date":"2014-08-19T20:50:16","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2798"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:57:53","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T20:57:53","slug":"taking-extra-precaution-before-recommending-physical-activity-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/taking-extra-precaution-before-recommending-physical-activity-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking extra precaution before recommending physical activity to children"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2782\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1hockey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2782\" class=\"wp-image-2782 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1hockey-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: flickr.com)\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1hockey-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1hockey.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2782\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/duluoz_cats\/4320554216\/in\/photolist-7zMYf5-5LzuRQ-5LzuL5-5LvfPT-5LzuNj-5LzuCU-5LvfRc-5LvfGn-5LzuQJ-5LzuGQ-5LvfM4-5LzuE1-5LzuPE-5LvfSZ-5LzuBw-7zMZAN-7zJfwi-7zNdGu-7zJmp2-7zMVQN-7zMUXq-7zJjZt-7zJaU8-7zNepC-7zNe4s-aEaf3H-aEah4R-aEagiM-aEe5YU-aEe7pu-aEe5MG-aEafCg-aEe6Ms-aEaeg4-aEagRz-aEe6ff-aEae1P-aEe7xf-aEe57S-aEaexv-aEe8b1-aEaeV4-aEe6Dd-aEe6su-aEe6Xs-aEe5HE-aEaf9M-aEagZX-aEafYe-aEaemX\">flickr.com<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcresearchpress.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1139\/apnm-2014-0074#.U_ett7xdXIU\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a>\u00a0published in <span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Applied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism\u00a0<\/span>on <strong>August 19, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2782,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[975,1792,51,476],"class_list":["post-2798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-children","tag-exercise","tag-health","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1hockey.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-J8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2798"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2798\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}