Life on holidays: study protocol for a 3-year longitudinal study tracking changes in children ’s fitness and fatness during the in-school versus summer holiday period

Emerging evidence suggests that children become fatter and less fit over the summer holidays but get leaner and fitter during the in-school period. This could be due to differences in diet and time use between...

https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7671-7

Source: BMC Public Health - October 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amanda Watson, Carol Maher, Grant R. Tomkinson, Rebecca Golley, Fran çois Fraysse, Dorothea Dumuid, Hayley Lewthwaite and Tim Olds Tags: Study protocol Source Type: research