“Standing up” for young children’s health: How sedentary are young children, what factors may influence sedentariness and what can be done to reduce it?

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• Prof Tony Okely, Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Educational Research Institute (IERI), University of Wollongong, Australia
• Monday 29 June 2015, 10:30-11:30
• IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre.

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Young children spend a large proportion of their day in sedentary behaviour. This may not be good for their physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development. If ways can be found to promote less sedentariness (i.e., sitting) and more standing and light-intensity physical activity this may help young children to be more active, enhance their self-regulation and, ultimately, their school readiness. Higher levels of school readiness have been associated with greater educational and economic outcomes later in life. Promoting less sitting, especially in early childhood education and care settings would involve making some key changes to the physical environment and to policies and practices such as replacing chairs with standing desks, allowing children to move more freely during and between activities, integrating movement into other learning areas (such as literacy and numeracy), and breaking up sitting time with energy breaks. This presentation will describe the prevalence of sitting, its links with health and development, correlates of sitting behaviour, and ways to reduce sitting time in the early years of life.

This talk is part of the MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars series.

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• Annual Food Agenda
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2015
• BHRU Annual Lecture 2016
• Cambridge Global Food Security
• Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit Special Seminars
• Department of Public Health and Primary Care
• IMS Level 4 seminar rooms 1-2, Institute of Metabolic Sciences, Addenbrooke’s Treatment Centre
• MRC Epidemiology and CEDAR Seminars
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• PublicHealth@Cambridge
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