Successive Lockdowns-Sedentary Lifestyle-Long Screen time- Impacted Children’s Health and Cognitive skills, A French Study! Read this Perspective!!

Dear Friends and Students

Successive Lockdowns are doing all kinds of havoc. French study warns it as “Catastrophic”! This specific study was on 90 students (7-8-year-old kids), comparing their behavior in September 2019 -  before France’s first lockdown -  and then in September 2020.

Results

• - Body Mass Index (BMI) increased by an average of 2 to 3 points
• - Sporty children with no health or weight problems have put on 5 to 10 kg
• - Children’s cognitive skills had diminished by up to 40 percent in some cases (Test: schoolchildren finished tests linking letters to corresponding numbers within a given time in Sep 2019, but in 2020, many did not)
• -  Many students  are not meeting the World Health Organization's recommendation of 60 minutes of daily physical exercise
• -  Can lead to the onset of chronic diseases such as diabetes/high blood pressure in long term.

In another study in UK, (acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jcv2.12009), there were increases in caseness (measures of depression and anxiety) for emotion, conduct and hyperactivity/inattention (18.64%, 35.10% and 20.36% change, respectively);

This Lockdown Impact story is something like Surprise and Suspense Thriller Movie! What is the difference between Surprise and Suspense?

Surprise is when two people are sitting in a coffee shop and a bomb goes off under the table;

Suspense is when we see a man place a bomb under the table and watch the two people meet to have coffee.

In the first case the public got fifteen seconds of surprise moment of the explosion.

In the second public got fifteen minutes of suspense. 

Last 2 months we are witnessing multiple deaths, black fungus, white fungus, etc. This has become daily story. This is the Suspense part of the Lockdown. However, Kids Health study results is a Surprise part! Kids are made to sit in the homes with lot of difficulty. The very purpose is to protect from the external Virus. However, the sedentary lifestyle has totally surprised, esp. Cognitive side!!

Parents,

Can you keep an eye on cognitive skills? Health is visible part of them problem, but Cognition is non-visible problem. Once it is lost for 2 years, revival becomes hard.

Rise Cognitive Tests for Kids at Home!!

Your Well-wisher

Ravi Saripalle

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Source Inspiration: https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20210630-lockdown-significantly-reduced-kids-physical-and-intellectual-capacities-french-study-covid-children-france