A recent Finnish study showed that 10 minutes of vigorous exercise everyday is enough to prevent a child from becoming overweight, Finnish national broadcaster Yle reported on Wednesday.

芬兰国家广播电台Yle周三报道说，芬兰最近的一项研究表明，每天10分钟的剧烈运动足以防止儿童超重。

The research conducted by the University of Eastern Finland was published on the latest issue of Sports Medicine.

东芬兰大学进行的研究发表在运动医学杂志的最新一期。

A total of 410 children aged six to eight years from Kuopio, eastern Finland, participated in the study.

共410名来自芬兰东部库奥皮奥的6至8岁儿童参加了这项研究。

Researchers examined the conditions of physical activity and physical inactivity among the children, and the impact on the children’s amount of adipose tissue and endurance fitness.

研究人员检查了身体活动和身体不活动的儿童的情况，以及儿童的脂肪组织量和耐力的影响。

The study showed that children who did strenuous exercise for ten minutes every day had 26 percent to 30 percent less adipose tissue than their peers who were physically inactive.

研究显示，每天进行10分钟剧烈锻炼的儿童的脂肪组织比不锻炼的同龄人减少26％至30％。

Furthermore, even substituting 10 minutes of light physical activity for the equivalent time of passive sitting reduced the fat mass in children’s body by 13 percent.

此外，即使以10分钟的轻体力活动替代同等时间的被动坐姿，也能使儿童身体的脂肪量减少13％。

Based on the results of the study, small changes in habits of physical activity could effectively affect children’s weight control and endurance.

根据研究结果，身体活动习惯的微小变化可以有效地影响儿童的体重控制和耐力。

Increasing physical activity and reducing sitting time are important ways to prevent obesity and improve aerobic fitness during childhood, the study concluded.

研究结论称，增加身体活动和减少坐着的时间是预防肥胖和提高儿童期有氧健身的重要方法。

Childhood obesity is on the rise globally. According to Yle, the University of Helsinki said in a study that if the trend continues, by 2025 the number of obese children around the world could surge by 25 percent from the level in 2010.

全球儿童肥胖率呈上升趋势。根据Yle，赫尔辛基大学在一项研究中说，如果这种趋势继续下去，到2025年，全球肥胖儿童的数量将比2010年的水平激增25％。

Source: news.iyuba.com/essay